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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.


Victor Pinchuk
Tags: Society Me Our
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I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.


Bruno Tonioli
Tags: Want Love I Love
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
Jason Blum
Tags: People Lot Could
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.


Abbie Hoffman
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Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.


Amy Grant
Tags: Good Music Think
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I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.


Italo Calvino
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
Victor Pinchuk
Tags: Me Very Will
I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.
Tom Rachman
Tags: You Like Think
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Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.


George Stephen
Tags: Me Who Even
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.


Larry J. Sabato
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
Sylvester Stallone
Tags: Great Just Get
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
James Frey
Tags: Freedom More Than
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.


Jorge Luis Borges
Tags: More Than Which
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
David Rockefeller
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In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.


Paul Merton
Tags: Fear Being Lot
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.


Rose Tremain
Tags: Way Any I Can
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I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.


Perry Farrell
Tags: Music People Like
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
Tom Perrotta
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
Paolo Sorrentino
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I. M. Pei
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
Eleanor Catton
Tags: Women Get Very
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Karen Kingsbury
Tags: About Life See
I went back to Australia to do a show called 'The Beautiful Lie,' which is a retelling of 'Anna Karenina' in a six-part mini-series - a modern, contemporary version.
Sarah Snook
Tags: Which Back Show
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
Leonard Baskin
Tags: Think World Art
We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.
Francis Maude
Tags: Home People Like
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
bell hooks
Tags: Men Many Why
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
Jonathan Coe
Tags: Me About More
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
Anna Wintour
Tags: Power Look Must
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.
Colum McCann
Tags: You Want Way
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
Vera Wang
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
George Crumb
Tags: Music Our Than
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
Robert Ashley
Tags: Me Would Only
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott
Tags: Who Person Rule
But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.
Juice Newton
Tags: More Get Lot
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Tags: Just After State
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'
Emma Donoghue
Tags: Work Me More
Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of the feminist universe for women who might never have encountered contemporary feminism.
Rebecca Traister
Tags: Women Who Up
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
John M. Ford
Tags: Good Future Space