Contemporary Quotes

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

All history is contemporary history.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

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

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

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.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

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

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

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

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

Contemporary art hates you.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

I read very little contemporary anything.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

The poet is always our contemporary.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!