Contemporary Quotes - Page 28

• I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

  Takashi Murakami

  Art, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators.

  Takashi Murakami

  Art, Order, People

  Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Connections, Advertising, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.

  Bruno Dumont

  Economic Models, Interesting, Political

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

  Sam Keen

  Moving, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, Challenges, Novelists

  "Don DeLillo's Hidden Truths". Interview with David Streitfield, perival.com. November 11, 1997.

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• For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Class, Trying

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.

  Fiona Apple

  Kids, Artist, Worry

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 04, 2012.

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• When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Progress, Debate, Strikes

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Judgement, Criticism

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• Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations to vehemently condemn this practice that slanders their religion? Why does contemporary Islam promote 'martyrdom' as the highest duty of Muslims? Why are photographs of suicide bombers plastered everywhere in Beirut? Because Islam is what Islam does.

  Jamie Glazov

  Suicide, Islamic, Practice

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• If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

  Annie Dillard

  Understanding, Progress, Novelists

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

  Alvin Toffler

  Civilization, Skills, Together Again

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• There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

  Thomas Merton

  Fighting, Violence, Form

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.81, Image

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• If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.

  Robert Graves

  Unexpected, Should, Found

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• There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

  W. H. Auden

  Thinking, Firsts, Study

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• For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back.

  Nicki Minaj

  Inspiration, Past, Archives

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

  Wangechi Mutu

  America, Culture, Influence

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Pistols, Able

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2000.

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• I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Eye, World, Habit

  Maurice de Vlaminck (1967). “Dangerous corner”

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• I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

  Delphine Arnault

  Art, New York, Passion

  "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

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• My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.

  Karim Rashid

  Real, People, Desire

  "Q&A: Designer Karim Rashid". Express Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Children, Thinking, Lucky

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Wish, Different

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

  Ben Lerner

  Thinking, Contemporary Fiction, Literature

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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