Modern Quotes - Page 13

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.