The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.
Pamela Stephenson

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
Nick Lowe

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Edward Hopper

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
Kenny G

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
Elliott Carter

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.
Wilma Mankiller

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
Elliott Carter

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
David Rockefeller

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
David Foster Wallace

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
Andres Serrano

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

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
David Elliott

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
Christo

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Chuck Mangione

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.
John Eaton

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

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
Julie Taymor

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.
Arto Lindsay

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
Donald Judd