“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad.… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott 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
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
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim,… — Delphine Arnault Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art,… — Michael Tilson Thomas 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
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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“Van Gogh, Modigliani, Hiroshige, etc., didn’t know merde about yachts, 8-star hotels, infinite pools, private jets...” — Alexander Akyna 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
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
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. — Eli Broad 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
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
“Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and… — Christo Copy Share Image
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do.… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever.… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
