#modern

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. ↗

— Nancy Banks Smith

#door #experience #extending #keep #lavatory

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree ↗

— William Blake

#business #modernity #art

The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#modernism #art

A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#art

Is there a Swedish Modernism? ↗

— Cecilia Widenheim

#modernism #sweden #art

I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her "I love you madly", because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still there is a solution. He can say "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly". At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly it is no longer possible to talk innocently, he will nevertheless say what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#post-modernism #postmodern #age

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#corruption #court-system #courts #ethical-behaviour #ethics

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. ↗

— Paul de Man

#came #could #departure #desire #earlier

…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change? ↗

— Jean-François Lyotard

#postmodernism #change

Times have changed.These days girls impress each other with their careers, not with the men on their arm. ↗

— Somi Ekhasomhi

#modern-women #change