Quotes About Modern

Why would someone want to start a museum in New York City when the Whitney and the Modern were already there? The answer was that the bigger museums were ill-equipped to respond quickly to radical or sudden changes in the arts, in part because exhibitions had to be scheduled years ahead of time to allow for securing loans, preparing catalogue, and, most important of all, obtaining funding.

The recognition that the Bible contains both history and metaphor has an immediate implication: the ancient communities that produced the Bible often metaphorized their history. Indeed, this is the way they invested their stories with meaning. But we, especially in the modern period, have often historicized their metaphors.

Fundamentalism itself—whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim—is modern. It is a reaction to modern culture.

The modern preoccupation with factuality has had a pervasive and distorting effect on how we see the Bible and Christianity.

Christianity in the modern period became preoccupied with the dynamic of believing or not believing. For many people, believing "iffy" claims to be true became the central meaning of Christian faith. It is an odd notion—as if what God most wants from us is believing highly problematic statements to be factually true. And if one can't believe them, then one doesn't have faith and isn't a Christian

its underlying principles are in such close harmony with the absolute and eternal right that they can never become obsolete. At the same time, the division and arrangement of the treatise give it, so far as I know, the precedence over all other ethical treatises ancient or modern.

I'd been reading modern French novels, and William Faulkner as well. I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession, with undertones of nausea.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

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

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.