This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time? — Melvin Glover Copy Share Image
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer… — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is… — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a… — Fiona Apple 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
Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
“How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I… — Jihae Copy Share Image
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why… — Charles Saatchi 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
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
I had really nice parents, and a very smart mother, but they weren't into art or anything. I didn't know what art… — Peaches 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
“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning… — Lucy R. Lippard 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
“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
(...) 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
“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
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
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 never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
