#modern

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#free #fresh #her #love #modern

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#everything #finds #live #looks #men

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction. ↗

— Edward Grey

#each #few #hundreds #instead #manifold

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes. ↗

— William Hague

#change #changes #i #i think #modern

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#china #chinese #comprehensive #experts #gotten

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#date #either #good #modern #music

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#entities #establish #exerts #formula #into

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #because #come #compromise #contradictions

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year. ↗

— Brad Holland

#asset #each #lost #many #modern

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. ↗

— Brad Holland

#experiments #figured #going #haven #how