One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people. — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize. — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone. — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern. — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
There are people that like contemporary art and people that like old art, and I like old art. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art. — David Furnish Copy Share Image
I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back. — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh, Modigliani, Hiroshige, etc., didn’t know merde about yachts, 8-star hotels, infinite pools, private jets...” — Alexander Akyna Copy Share Image
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons. — Nikolay Semyonov 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
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and… — Peter York 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
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or… — Lily Cole 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
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
“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
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
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 tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory… — Grant H. Kester 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
