Quotes About Contemporary

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.

If you boil the strange soup of contemporary right-wing ideology down to a sort of bouillon cube, you find the idea that things are not connected to other things, that people are not connected to other people, and that they are all better off unconnected. The core values are individual freedom and individual responsibility: yourself for yourself, on your own.

Dorrigo Evans was unable to make head or tail of it. His tastes were in any case already ossifying into the prejudices of those who voyage far into classics in adolescence and rarely journey elsewhere again. He was mostly lost with the contemporary and preferred the literary fashions of half a century before—in his case, the Victorian poets and the writers of antiquity.

In fact, the idea of the paranoid style would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to people with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.

The first reactions to The Bell Curve were expressions of public outrage.

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

Even our contemporary cult of celebrity can be understood as an expression of our reverence for and yearning to emulate models of "superhumanity." Feeling ourselves connected to such extraordinary

Ma curiosité est insatiable, je vampirise l'air du temps.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.