contemporary art

Contemporary art is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

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"It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. 'Today' is their creator."

Robert Rauschenberg· b. 1925View quote →

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"Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together."

"Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis."

"Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it."

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."

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🇩🇪Robert Rauschenberg

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contemporary art

1925–2008

"It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. 'Today' is their creator."

"I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture."

"For me personally, the greatest art to date has been created in New York and the most uptight and conventional art in Berlin. Obviously, I am an exception to this rule!"

"I painted beach scenes not because I was feeling nice, but because I wanted to get a particular effect of reflection."

"There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist. It’s not like becoming a doctor or something. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist."

"I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. I just make it first and then it becomes much clearer to me why."

"At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo."

"Commentary: Sam and the Perfect World" by Barry Bub, Medicine Academic Vol. 82, Issue 2"

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🇬🇧Patrick Heron (author)

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contemporary art

1920–1999

"On the night I came to know Jesus Christ, I had a vision. I believe that vision will soon be a reality. I know God's hand has been on my life."

"When art is a form of behaviour, software predominates over hardware in the creative sphere. Process replaces product in importance, just as system supersedes structure."

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🇬🇧Ian Hamilton Finlay

"My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God."

"When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do."

"I have no complaints, except for the world."

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Notable Quotes

"It will remain most definitely.It will need periodic polishing – it’s there"

— Anish Kapoor, b. 1954View →

"I wake up early, does some meditation, take my children to school, and then go to the studio to begin my day's work. The food for his soul is typically India, but with lots of salad on the side."

— Anish Kapoor, b. 1954View →

"Everything about the process by which public art is commissioned today militates against the commissioning of good artists and the creation of good art."

— Anish Kapoor, b. 1954View →

"Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together."

— Anish Kapoor, b. 1954View →

"In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy."

— Anish Kapoor, b. 1954View →

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