The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone. — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure. — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. — Eleanor Clift Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to… — John Walford Copy Share Image
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
“They were opposite in so many ways, but it was the kind of difference that was balancing-her softness with his steel, his… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak… — Bono Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite,… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our… — Haley Lu Richardson Copy Share Image
“His name feels like a secret, and now he's wearing it on his wrist. I want to know all about this girl… — Robin York Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it… — Marilyn Strathern Copy Share Image
Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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