Contemporary Quotes

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

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.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

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 doing and to follow their careers.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.