The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It… — Alan Coren 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
Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
“Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“Some guys get fifteen years, others get life. So death for Ed but not for everyone. Cos it all depends on who… — Sarah Crossan Copy Share Image
What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political… — Hannah Copy Share Image
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think… — Megan Duke Copy Share Image
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting… — John Stott Copy Share Image
With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era,… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“We don't really change. We finally begin to live a life that is true to our values.” — Anthea Syrokou Copy Share Image
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them,… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image