#modern

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Jackson Pollock

#expressing #feelings #his #illustrating #modern

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. ↗

— Orson Pratt

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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#blood #cold #entertaining #film #fun

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? ↗

— John C. Ransom

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But we moderns are impatient and destructive. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#impatient #moderns

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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