I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the lefthand path seek liberation in this life. --About Zeena Schreck...
It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffering something to be avoided at all cost. We consid...
LEELAND for all my sins I have forbidden wings
'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.
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.
