#modern

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My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.


Lena Dunham


#artists #deeply #engaging #entire #everything

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.


John Desmond Bernal


#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

Most modern comedy is crap.


Adrian Edmondson


#crap #modern #most

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.


Theodore Bikel


#fully #mixture #modernity #need #order

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.


Guy Debord


#conditions #directly #everything #immense #into

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.


Art Blakey


#blues #church #come #i #jazz

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.


Terry Eagleton


#expense #joke #other #postmodernism #revolutionary

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.


Robert Englund


#gag #horror #lets #modern #our

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#classical #coherent #ending #enough #feel

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#courses #did #english #english literature #figured