Quotes About Contemporary

So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

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.

la pintura de costumbres del presente. El pasado es interesante no solo por la belleza que supieron extraer de él los artistas para quienes era presente, sino además por pasado, por su valor histórico. Lo mismo ocurre con el presente. El placer que obtenemos en las representaciones del presente depende no solo de la belleza que este pueda revestir, sino además de su cualidad esencial de presente.

the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact. (According to the Peruvian critic César Paternosto, such major twentieth-century painters as Josef Albers, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko were inspired by Inka art.)

Even the furniture in the glass room was transparent—off-the-shelf Louis Ghost chairs and a matching transparent table.

Theirs was a very twenty-first-century kind of relationship, which is to say one that it would have been illegal a hundred years earlier and fashionably scandalous a century before that.

It's important to always mix the past with the present. I think that makes it feel more authentic and real.

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

I collect furniture and modern art. And I never go to any parties. I rather prefer to go around in nature.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Unlike his contemporary Sir John Mandeville, who, at least in later parts of his book, got away with the travel-literary equivalent of murder, Ibn Battuta's veracity was in the dock wherever he went.

Entrapped by the image, contemporary subjects come to inhabit a world without distance.

America "is no country for the infirm" because infirmity indicates a failure of enjoyment. To be sick is thus to be guilty. The sick illustrate the persistence of dissatisfaction and distance within the society of enjoyment. In acknowledging the sick, one acknowledges lack as well. Hence, like Roy Cohn, we opt instead for nonstop motion, for trying to eliminate the distance that the sick would introduce into the contemporary world.

the dogma of hard work—which is deeply embedded in contemporary notions of what it means to be American—is what keeps us toiling and keeps us happy to be exploited in this way.