Quotes About Contemporary

I consider my music edgy, urban and with an earthy element.

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.

It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

I was told about 'Misfits' when we were in prep for 'Chronicle', and I wanted to watch it badly because I'm a fan of that kind of stuff. But I stopped myself because I was very careful about not getting too much contemporary influence.

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.

As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.

Creo que el único modo de que prospere el cristianismo consiste en mantener viva una cultura cristiana vigorosa, segura de sí y llena de vida, pero en interacción dinámica con la cultura contemporánea.