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.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

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.

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

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Contemporary art hates you.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.