Contemporary Quotes - Page 27

• Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.

  Ian Mcewan

  Emotional, Intellectual, Novelists

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• I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

  Rachel Cusk

  Artist, Thinking, Culture

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". The Believer Interview, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

  Rachel Cusk

  Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Needs

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Mean, Issues, People

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• All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Real, Media, Ideas

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• Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

  Pete Seeger

  Father, Definitions, Ancient

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.

  Steven Pressfield

  Book, People, Fake

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Air, Graves, Novel

  Source: mrbellersneighborhood.com

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• I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect them with contemporary life through the technology we have now.

  Mariko Mori

  Technology, Reality, Ideas

  Interview with Kunié Sugiura, www.jca-online.com.

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• My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

  Patti LuPone

  Rocks, Stories, Mahler

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• I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

  Patti LuPone

  Artist, Sound, Pops

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• For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.

  Donnie Yen

  Character, Challenges, Historical

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• Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

  William Kristol

  Philosophy, Discovery, Political

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• The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

  William March

  Fiction, Underrated, American Writer

  William March, William T. Going, Richard Brough (2011). “99 Fables”, p.20, University of Alabama Press

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• Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.

  Karl Friedrich Schinkel

  Past, Historical, Arbitrary

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• Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Philosophy, Yield, Age

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or the success of the feminist movement, but rather as a profound evolutionary response to a pervasive cultural crisis. Feminine principles are entering the public realm because we can no longer afford to restrict them to the private domestic sphere, nor allow a public culture obsessed with Warrior values to control human destiny if we are to survive.

  Sally Helgesen

  Women, Divorce, Warrior

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• Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.

  David Chang

  Thinking, Different, Ramen

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• The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Nice, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.501

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• Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

  Greil Marcus

  Writing, Voice, Everyday

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• My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

  Herbert Bayer

  Artist, Integration, Totality

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• Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Moon, Saturn

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

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• (...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests

  Sarah Thornton

  Atheist, Art, Community

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• 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

  Hate, Real, Heart

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• I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

  Frank O'Hara

  Past, Sides, Deals

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press

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