Quotes About Contemporary

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.

I think that first-person narration is very characteristic of contemporary optics, in which the individual performs the role of subjective center of the world.

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

My music reflects the time on which we live, both in terms of arrangements, as well as in the subjects treated in the lyrics.

contemporary neonativism is rooted in an epistemological framework entirely different from Piaget's epistemological framework.

Contemporary causal representational approaches to infant development, such as Baillargeon's, represent, in this respect, a step backward because they ignore epistemological questions and are unaware of their own epistemological commitments.

Reescribir la historia de la ética es repensarla desde el presente, a la luz de los problemas y de las circunstancias específicas que hoy nos agobian.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page

Culture-wise, shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz, self-mocking materialism, blank indifference, and the delusion that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive?

Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous "I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift" part of Ecclesiastes as "Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely uninteresting.

The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can't like it.

The novel has been the subject of several scholarly essays and has become a staple of college classes in contemporary fiction (and even the occasional philosophy class). Fifty-four rejections.

For black Americans, Exodus is always contemporary, history always past and present.

Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by suicidal types who sooner or later kill themselves with alcohol or drugs, or shotguns, Professor Takuda was a remarkably cheerful man.

Michel Cukiermann, my son-in-law: heir of suffering, pillar of the community, contemporary stand-in for the sons of Abraham, disciple of Moses.