Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture. — Alexander Stoddart 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
Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern. — Jamie Hewlett 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
Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize. — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people. — Laurence Graff 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
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about… — Yasumasa Morimura 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
A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working… — Jerry Uelsmann 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
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
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Collecting contemporary art I started with some of the younger artists. Although, having a son who's an artist, I was hesitant-I think… — Laurence Graff 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it. — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art. — David Furnish 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
I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what… — China Chow Copy Share Image
We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to… — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
