Contemporary Quote by Italo Calvino Download Open image “I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.” — Italo Calvino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemporary Destroy Detest Genres Hierarchy Traditional Trend
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things. — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
“(one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“And for God's sake, don't let her watch Cinderella. What kind of example is that? A mindless twit who can't even remember where she… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
“No." I pulled away just enough to lock my eyes with his. His crooked smile sent shivers down my spine. His eyes were a… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental… — Christo Copy Share Image
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
