Quotes About Contemporary

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.

Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation.

Even when I have a vintage play, I draw in elements from current scenarios, so that modern audiences can empathize with the characters.

Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.

Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Uma das principais extravagâncias do período contemporâneo é reduzir a filosofia a uma simples "reflexão crítica" ou ainda a uma "teoria da argumentação".

A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...

However, in talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income. The term equality as employed in contemporary political language always means upward leveling of one's income, never downward leveling. It means getting more, not sharing one's own affluence with people who have less.

Of course all this happened a long time ago. And nothing like that could happen again, not in this day and age.

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

No other road, no other way, No day but today!

We live life in the present.

Today, Passover is a festival of freedom....Passover remains relevant and contemporary, while at the same time a ritual several thousand years old.... The content—at least some of it—is flexible and determined by the participants at specific celebrations. Thus, the holy day is still meaningful to younger generations, because it allows for creative input and participation. It breathes.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?