#contemporaries

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#contemporaries #dead #easier #get #i

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#confronted #contemporaries #desert #go #him

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#continue #guided #never #oneself #opinion

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#contemporaries #dramatic #every #his #including

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are. ↗

— Robert Forster

#contemporaries #feeling #i #looking #never

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#contemporaries #lost #much #our #rationality

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#contemporaries #merit #person #posterity #rather

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#helped #i #imagine #inhabit #ireland

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#business #contemporaries #destiny #entered #logical

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#consciously #contemporaries #epoch #his #individual