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Making sense of now

A few speakers here connect creativity to the moment they're living in, treating Art as a direct expression of the present.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it!

Quotes by Mary Balogh

History
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Nov 07, 2020

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Quotes by Leopold Von Ranke

Artist
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Nov 07, 2020

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Quotes by Leonard Baskin

Extensions
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Nov 07, 2020

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

Quotes by George Crumb

Need
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Nov 07, 2020

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

Energy
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Nov 07, 2020

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

Quotes by Alessandro Michele

Others discuss how they capture that same present-day feeling in a Book, shaping voice and subject around the world right in front of them.

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