#modern

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#centers #chicago #commercial #great #habitation

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#literature #magic #modernism #myth #surrealism

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. ↗

— Aubrey F.G. Bell

#cervantes #don-quixote #great-books #man-of-la-mancha #modern-library

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. ↗

— Max Eastman

#bears #caprice #chance #classic #modern

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#certainly #changed #cooks #fantastic #historical

With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#bigger #budgets #cable #characters #drama

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source. ↗

— El Lissitzky

#down #energy #energy source #expression #heavens

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained. ↗

— James Loeb

#copyright #could #efforts #excellence #existence

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#because #came #civilization #common #common sense

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#country music #i #into #like #modern