America Quote by Thomas Heatherwick

Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged -…

— Diego Cortez

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at…

— Marc Jacobs

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…

— China Chow

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

— Ai Weiwei

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

— Damien Hirst

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

— David Hockney

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

— Hans Hofmann

"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming…

— Liam Gillick

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so…

— Banksy

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself,…

— Louise Bourgeois

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the…

— Tom Rachman