#century

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#century #defects #english #great #index

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#anything #artists #before #century #considering

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#bury #century #compulsion #days #give

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. ↗

— David Hockney

#any #century #doubt #greatest #i

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#century #future #generates #high-wage #industries

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#church #dry #half #ice #instead

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#capital #century #city #decades #fascinated

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#century #changed #did #hardly #just

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#century #hard #i #me #music