All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.
I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod. . . Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.
I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.
I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.
I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
I think classic films are classic for a reason. It's always sketchy to redo one, especially if you're trying to make it contemporary. That's really just not the way to go.
Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.
Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.