Quotes About Contemporary

How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred art, the reversal of the creator's initial question: why is there something instead of nothing?

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.