Contemporary Quotes

644 Contemporary quotes by 549 unique authors

I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life. — Unknown Author
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the… — Angela Carter
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called… — Chaim Potok
I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory, — John Bonham
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write… — Jonathan Franzen
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a… — Truman Capote
The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his… — Ernst Junger
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem… — John Blacking
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to… — Richard Hofstadter
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound… — Clement Greenberg
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They… — Pina Bausch
Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought.… — Juan Gris
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like… — Alan Moore
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like… — John Maynard Keynes
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. — Guy Debord
Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich… — Bill Foster
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender… — Judith Butler
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary. — Henry Ford
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. — Eli Broad
Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home… — Thomas Merton
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. — Wes Jackson
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a… — Martin Parr
The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others and… — Unknown Author

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