I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it. — Wade Guyton 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 a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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
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
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to… — Donald Judd 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
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are… — Victor Pinchuk 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
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs,… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who… — Marc Jacobs 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
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 love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew… — Nouriel Roubini 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
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
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
“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal… — Christopher S. Wood 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 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
“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 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
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
Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture. — Alexander Stoddart 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
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
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
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
Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
