Quotes About Modernity

I love black and white and very simple and classic clothes.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

In any artistic rendering of the city theme alienation is a constant. Given the anonymity the city provides, it could hardly be otherwise. Artists, especially writers, have recognised this dichotomy, and that cities have always proved a source of freedom by providing anonymity, notwithstanding the estrangement and isolation that goes with it. Indeed, the city's impetus towards modernity is to be found in that narrow zone between loss of community and discovery of self.

The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

Todo lo que es anacrónico es obsceno. Como divinidad (moderna), la Historia es represiva, la Historia nos prohíbe ser inactuales. Del pasado, no soportamos más que la ruina, el monumento, el kitsch o el retro, que es divertido; reducimos ese pasado a su sola rúbrica.

Both sides had entered the war already weakened by the disease, and just as in 1918, armies propagated the contagion. Hospitals, already overfilled by flu victims, were unable to treat more than a fraction of the wounded. And yet the war raged on, pulling both countries and their neighbors back into the pre-industrial world. Little was left of modernity except for weapons.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

Chiedersi se le cose sono vere prima di chiedersi cosa ne pensiamo è un esercizio che suona perfino ingenuo, tanto è fuori moda.

This is why so much of the discussion about "modernity" and "postmodernity" is just pretentious. What we call Enlightenment modernity was just the period when our public authorities fell into unbelief. Postmodernity is when they discovered that unbelief is a slippery place, and they fell into it deeper.

Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

Yet the idea of American investment was potent. To open the Irish economy up so that British bosses could employ Irish workers was to admit defeat. To have American firms in small Irish towns would be to embrace a thrilling modernity and simultaneously to reconnect with the great Irish-American diaspora in whom so much hope – from tourist dollars to support for the national cause of ending partition – had been invested

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.