19th century Quote by Cary Fukunaga

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

— Gavin Bryars

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

— Max von Sydow

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they…

— Gertrude Stein

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at…

— Juan Goytisolo

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians…

— Pierre Schaeffer

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

— Rachel Cusk

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect -…

— John Walford

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th…

— Noam Chomsky

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

— Orson Welles

“The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism”

— Alain Frogley

The similarities among different kinds of audiences far outweigh the differences.

— Darwin Ortiz