Contemporary Quotes - Page 21

• I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.

  John Cage

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1952.

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• My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

  Sidney Lanier

  Artist, Criticism, Bitterness

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• Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Christian, Independent, Past

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• I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

  Paul Emsley

  Strong, Portraiture, Faces

  "Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews". BBC Interview, www.bbc.com. January 11, 2013.

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• Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

  Alexander Stoddart

  Art, Culture, Epoch

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• The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality and will lose its 'punch' when topical concerns move on to other interests.

  Scott Kahn

  Art, Moving, Today

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

  Nikolay Semyonov

  Art, Icons, Doubt

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• I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.

  Wade Guyton

  Money, Art, New York

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• Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.

  Graham Harvey

  Issues, Addresses, Way

  Graham Harvey (2013). “Animism: Respecting the Living World”, p.12, Columbia University Press

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• Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.

  Graham Harvey

  Doe, Way, Being Human

  Graham Harvey (2005). “Animism”, p.21, Columbia University Press

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• I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.

  Chris Ware

  Uplifting, Depressing, Disappointment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Culture, Masculine

  "David Gordon Green and Emile Hirsch on Sundance and Feeling Horny". Interview with Mina Hochberg, www.vulture.com. January 22, 2013.

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• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  Caity Lotz

  Art, Moving, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

  Aleksey Igudesman

  Interesting, Film, Classical Music

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• In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way we look at the world, or rally disparate hearts to a single cause. Yet, ours is a society shaped by this very phenomenon.

  Steve McCurry

  Heart, Looks, World

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• Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Two, Sorrow

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• It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Clouds, Dust

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• The poet is always our contemporary.

  Virginia Woolf

  Poet

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932”, Chatto & Windus

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• Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

  William Hazlitt

  Distance, Men, Numbers

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.38

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• The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, History, Generations

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Mysterious Mr Quin”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Thinking, Feelings

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

  Jeremy Collier

  Running, Plato, Reading

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• Strangers are contemporary posterity.
  [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

  Madame de Stael

  Stranger, Posterity

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• art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Past, Would Be

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