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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
