Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
The subject of contemporary art should include a political dimension, the distrust contemporary art has towards the existing order. One manifestation of… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
My contemporary art collection began with just needing to put things on the wall. I was looking around my Victorian house thinking,… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation… — Thomas Koerfer 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 don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize. — Zara Larsson 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
When the magazines talk about artists they talk about the Paul McCartneys, the Paul Simons, they never talk about me. So their… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek 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
Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever.… — Gaby Hoffmann 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
It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life...… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“The culture of our world, right now, is crafted by little boys who only recall being stood up on their first date,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society. — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
