Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

Jose Andres Puerta

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Tim Vine

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times a...

Wynton Marsalis

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of ...

Woodrow Wilson

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

John Gresham Machen

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Jackson Pollock

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

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

Milan Kundera

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times