Quotes of: Contemporary Keyword

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

Damien Hirst

Shifting the frame only slightly, the choice of a theory from among the range of always ideologically founded theories is itself necessarily ideologically motivated. Positioning is unavoidable; positioning is the result of choice from among a range o...

Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication: Exploring Contemporary Methods of Communication

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and th...

Nigel Lythgoe

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

John Eaton

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

Brian De Palma

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

Roberta Smith

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state - and the preparation of a labour force serving the needs of a national economy and administration. That state was...

Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication: Exploring Contemporary Methods of Communication

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

Victor Pinchuk

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Peter Utley

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

Essays on Contemporary Events, 1936-46

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

Bruno Tonioli

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

Minoru Yamasaki

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Steve Martin

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Salman Rushdie

What good is a revolution anyway if it isn’t joyful?

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

Are We There Yet?

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime

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

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Iris Johansen