“In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!” ThinkingTwoStuffPiecesModernPeriodsContemporaryAustraliaCorsets Author:Frances O'Connor
“What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.” YearsArtBeautifulEnergyViewsPiecesModernArt IsExtraordinaryPoint Of ViewContemporaryAestheticContemporary ArtNew Energy Author:Victor Pinchuk
“It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.” FeelsHardActorsPiecesPeriodsContemporary Author:George Clooney
“All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.” IfsStillsMomentsPiecesAlivePeriodsMusic IsContemporaryFadesKickingGreat MusicFade Away Author:Steve Reich
“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.” WorldImportantDoneSocialBitsTermPiecesLandHonorWasteCriticismCriticsVariousContemporaryReliefInsignificantGrumblingWaste Land Author:T. S. Eliot
“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.” ProblemTogetherForgetPiecesCivilizationSkillsWesternContemporarySplitsSmallestComponentsBack TogetherWestern CivilizationTogether AgainBack Together AgainDissection Author:Alvin Toffler
“Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.” ThinkingWantFeelsArtInterestingEmotionPiecesExampleArt IsContemporaryOur TimeMainstreamReally Interesting Author:Luis Gonzalez