“Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and now he has eternity.”
Piet Hein
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
Oscar Wilde
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
Charles Baudelaire
“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart”
Walter Lippmann
“It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?”
Claude Debussy
“All the modern inconveniences”
Mark Twain
