Contemporary Art Quotes
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Contemporary Art Quotes & Sayings
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
— Anish Kapoor
Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.
— Alexander Stoddart
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.
— Stephanie Perkins
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
— Tom Stoppard
I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art ... that people actually paid for it.
— Wade Guyton
Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.
— Sally Jo Martine
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
— David Elliott
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
— Eli Broad
... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.
— Mark Zero
Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.
— Michele Brenton
Contemporary art hates you.
— John Waters
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.
— Robert Motherwell
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.
— Donald Judd
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.
— Michael Scott
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
— Roberta Smith
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
— Damien Hirst
Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.
— David Levithan
I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.
— Takashi Murakami
Hey, I'm an art lover," protested Ramirez. "I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I'm sayin'?"
Beverly's smile froze. "Yes, quite. — Linda Morris
Beverly's smile froze. "Yes, quite. — Linda Morris
I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.
— Nikolay Semyonov
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
— Jason Blum
I avoid contemporary TV ... politics ... art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.
— Dean Koontz
The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.
— Susan Sontag
There's no better way to get to know a person than through their art.
— Tessa Emily Hall
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
— Sol LeWitt
My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
— Emma Ishta
Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].
— A.S. Byatt
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
— Nicholas Serota
From personal adversity comes great art
— Tan Redding
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
— Victor Pinchuk
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
— David Hockney
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
— Michael Scott
And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.
— Mark Zero
I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.
— Robert Helpmann