They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller 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
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant… — Ian Hornak 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
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
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music,… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not… — R. O. Blechman Copy Share Image
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,… — John Green Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste”… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of… — Kim Anderson 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
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
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
“The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions… — Charlotte Bydler 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I embrace the middle ground, because curiously it has more edge to it than the cutting edge. It has been a weirdly… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose… — Prestel Publishing Copy Share Image
The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
