Best Contemporary Art Quotes

47 Contemporary Art quotes by 43 unique authors

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art. — Damien Hirst
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. — Donald Judd
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. — Anish Kapoor
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have… — Josef Albers
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its… — Asger Jorn
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want. — Michael Scott
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott
Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92… — Chloe Sevigny
There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary… — Marc Jacobs
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great… — Sylvester Stallone
Contemporary art hates you. — John Waters
I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy… — Nouriel Roubini
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone. — Roberta Smith
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the… — Dasha Zhukova
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand. — Jason Blum
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the… — Elizabeth Peyton
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New… — Delphine Arnault
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art… — Michael Leunig
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. — David Elliott
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it… — Michael Tilson Thomas
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at… — Christo

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