(307 quotes found)
“Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue”
Charles Simmons
“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
“The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.”
Marshall McLuhan
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”
Antonio Gramsci
“Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.”
Paul de Man
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another”
W. H. Auden
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”
George Santayana
“If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition”
Charles Caleb Colton
“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.”
Walter Gropius
