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The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking (Contemporary Quotes)
Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not (Contemporary Quotes)
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria (Contemporary Quotes)
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation (Contemporary Quotes)
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you’re involved in that visual world, you can’t really go backwards (Contemporary Quotes)
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be (Contemporary Quotes)
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art (Contemporary Quotes)
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want (Contemporary Quotes)
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era (Contemporary Quotes)
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful (Contemporary Quotes)
It’s hard to find actors that don’t feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece (Contemporary Quotes)
When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That’s just me (Contemporary Quotes)
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds (Contemporary Quotes)
When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future (Contemporary Quotes)
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession (Contemporary Quotes)
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure (Contemporary Quotes)
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground (Contemporary Quotes)
The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown (Contemporary Quotes)
I don’t have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary (Contemporary Quotes)
The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society? (Contemporary Quotes)
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It’s very contemporary (Contemporary Quotes)
There’s something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men (Contemporary Quotes)
In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern (Contemporary Quotes)
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character (Contemporary Quotes)
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it (Contemporary Quotes)
Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system (Contemporary Quotes)
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 (Contemporary Quotes)
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air (Contemporary Quotes)
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 (Contemporary Quotes)
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society (Contemporary Quotes)