Quotes of: Contemporary-music Keyword

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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

I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefa...

Olga Kurylenko

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

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

Warren Ellis

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

Eli Broad

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they act...

Marc Jacobs

This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory and criticism. I would argue that a closer analysis of collaborative and collective art pract...

The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.

Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology

Christ wasn’t only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it.

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

Tom Rachman

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.

Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

Ted Allen