Quotes of: Modern-art Keyword

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and t...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases that ravaged pre-agricultural people (something we hea...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be t...

The Hidden Wound

We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of 'situations' -- defined in 1958 as ...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner conflict which is characteristic of modern man: the conf...

The Whole Person in a Broken World

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to lear...

Erich Fromm

It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns. But as men have always bee...

Hermann Boerhaave

First Man at Auto Shop: Here's where the infant's head went through the wind-shield. Three points. Man #2 at Auto Shop: The teenager's braces are still wrapped around the backseat ashtray. Might make a good anti-smoking ad. First Man at Auto Shop: Th...

Fight Club

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm going to make art! Art arty art art.

Music

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine...

Billy Al Bengston

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Damien Hirst

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Henry A. Wallace

Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

The History Man

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Shakespeare and Modern Culture