“For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.”
![“To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.” quote by Odd Nerdrum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d01/odd-nerdrum-27218_actuality_to-be-contemporary-actually-means-to-be_2644626.jpg)
