“One of the most feared expressions in modern times is ''The computer is down''”
Norman R. Augustine
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
Oscar Wilde
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
“Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”
Salvador Dalí
“One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.”
William Orville Douglas
