Contemporary Culture Quotes

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.

If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.

In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western culture, we don't have that, and horror is a place you can be immersed in it.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

When I saw 'Louie' and 'Girls', I was blown out of the water. They were fearless portrayals of real life. Everyone has a different experience.

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these comic-book characters are the pagan pantheon of gods in today's contemporary culture. It's so important to so many people.