Contemporary Quotes

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

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.

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

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 amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

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

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.

Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.