Analysis Quote by Susan Sontag

All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an…

— Victor Papanek

Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind.…

— Alexander Hamilton

To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often…

— Susan Sontag

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

— Susan Sontag

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers

Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and…

— Martine Syms

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to…

— Cory Arcangel

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a…

— Yasumasa Morimura

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

— Michael Scott

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined…

— Juan Goytisolo

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

— Sol LeWitt