I wanted to do something that is generous to the whole exhibition. Contemporary art is a bit off-putting to people because they don't know the history. Even the term contemporary art history is oxymoronic.
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Related The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK The art here is playful enough to break down the boundaries of suspicion and fear some people have a... JAKE SENIUK People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really... DAMIEN HIRST I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ... GOPAKUMAR R I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use V... GOPAKUMAR R I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped ... VERA WANG The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one a... JOHN TRUDELL PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA The slides are the way art history is taught. It's the way artists and art historians learn about ar... MATT DISTEL 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art... NATHAN SAWAYA The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with... GEOFF DYER The real loser is someone who tries nothing and does nothing SOTONYE ANGA The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to th... GERTRUDE STEIN We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible i... DAVID ELLIOTT Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for histor... I. M. PEI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. VICTOR PINCHUK The history of art is the history of revivals SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in... EMMA ISHTA I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art. DAVID FURNISH If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contem... ELEANOR CLIFT One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the ... ANISH KAPOOR To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory ... YOKO ONO I am truly excited about the quality of these three major sculptures, but also about the diversity o... LEWIS SHARP History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people... WILLIAM MORRIS History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to pre... AHMAD FUADI The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations... SUSAN SONTAG Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER His work is a fine example of contemporary West African art depicting traditional ways of life. JANINE BELL The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and ev... RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to ma... JAMES FREY If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separa... ELIZABETH PEYTON I think African art, primitive in a sense, influenced the contemporary and modern art from the begin... FORTUNA VALENTINO Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do ... HUGH GRANT Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA ...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the publ... LEO STEINBERG To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to st... IAN HORNAK You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the in... WILLIAM MORRIS The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are deali... ROBERT MOTHERWELL I love to read history; at its best, it is an art. DAVID EBERSHOFF I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. MIA WASIKOWSKA I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art hi... BARRY MCGEE By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any stud... JAMES HENRY BREASTED The 2005 nickel designs follow Thomas Jefferson's vision to explore the great West, ... small pieces... HENRIETTA HOLSMAN It's a heady feeling. Museums around the world are buying [contemporary Chinese art], Chinese collec... LUDOVIC BOIS Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goa... DONALD TUSK The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has... PAUL GAUGUIN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impac... JEFFREY DEITCH Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some ... JOAN SUTHERLAND Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them. SUSAN VREELAND Art history is littered with work that involves light. JAMES TURRELL Chen is an indelible name in contemporary art, whether in the West or East. In his mind, art could h... ZHANG QING Although it's rooted in the history of the revolution, its philosophical slant is, I suppose, contem... ROGER WATERS I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. BRUNO TONIOLI A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially ... SUZY KASSEM I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the ... JOHN C. MATHER Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art. HANS-ULRICH OBRIST We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The grey area between right and wrong is something that appeals to a very contemporary sensitivity. TOM HIDDLESTON Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attai... LANA M. H. WILDER We are more than just a gallery demonstrating the 'cutting edge' of contemporary arts and crafts. We... MIKE PATTERSON I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there be... FRANCES MAYES Leadership is the art to have people do something they dislike, and have them enjoy it HARRY S TRUMAN I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was ... HERB RITTS An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. PETER UTLEY A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs. RICHARD CASTLE Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms. MARGARET ATWOOD The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the histo... ABHIJIT NASKAR A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contem... JERRY SALTZ I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. We are now better equipped to carry out our mission as a place for people to engage with great works... JAY GATES It fits in with art curriculum under art careers because they need to know that there really is mone... MARYBETH WALTZ Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do RAYMOND MORTIMER Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... TEJU COLE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual... JEFF KOONS The biggest reason for teaching this course is simply for fun and to learn a little more about art h... LARS JONES There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of ... DASHA ZHUKOVA
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