When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time? — Melvin Glover Copy Share Image
I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad.… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art,… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music,… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of… — Kim Anderson Copy Share Image
“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste”… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
We can no longer contemplate the subject - self - of contemporary art; it has been woven into infinite relationships, replaced by… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape,… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
“The machinery of the sky that confounds us on earth with endless transformations of clouds in the light of dawn does not… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
“Much of what was to become modern art and the changed concept of the function of museums was spurred by a cadre… — Ivy Hendy Copy Share Image
“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
