Quotes of Modern - somelinesforyou

“ One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ”

- Elizabeth Wilson

“ A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. ”

- Elias Canetti

“ A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. ”

- Jean Francois Lyotard

“ Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement, But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place. ”

- Quinlan Terry

“ It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. ”

- Unknown

“ It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. ”

- Vaclav Havel

“ Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. ”

- Upton Sinclair

“ The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. ”

- Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

“ The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. ”

- John Mortimer

“ This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ”

- Matthew

“ You are born modern, you do not become so. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with… collars, neck collars. ”

- Ralph Lauren

“ It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. ”

- Roger Waters

“ I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. ”

- Ellen Glasgow

“ Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ I think the adjective "post-modernist" really means "mannerist." Books about books is fun but frivolous. ”

- Angela Carter

“ For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal. ”

- J. I. Packer

“ When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. ”

- Le Corbusier
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