Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I began collecting artwork as a way to help young artists to promote their work as well as to increase awareness of… — Yusaku Maezawa Copy Share Image
Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
“Looking into the mirror I ask myself: "You live in a house equipped with air conditioning. You eat tasty food. You utilize… — Marinella Venanzi Copy Share Image
“Art playing on its own disappearance and the disappearance of its object was still an art of great works. But art playing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions… — Charlotte Bydler Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing… — Robert Del Naja Copy Share Image
Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM,… — Seth Troxler Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture. — Alexander Stoddart Copy Share Image
Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
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 mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not… — R. O. Blechman 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
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
