Contemporary Art Quotes

47 quotes by 43 authors

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without… — Cindy Sherman
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. — Eli Broad
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and… — Donald Judd
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didnâ€™t quite happen. I guess Iâ€™m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the… — Donald Fagen
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, — Ai Weiwei
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's… — Paddy Johnson
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art. — Tom Stoppard
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is… — Charles Saatchi
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go… — John Green
I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. — Bruno Tonioli
Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a… — John Walford
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being in… — Leo Steinberg
I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing… — China Chow
There is no new wave, only the sea. — Claude Chabrol
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call… — James Frey
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society… — Brian Ferneyhough
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny… — Ian Hornak
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick'… — Hans Haacke

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