Modernist Era Quotes

#1. In the modernist era the division between art and the world was close to absolute, or put another way, art was a world of its own.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#2. While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

Walter J. Phillips

#3. I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Anne Sullivan

#4. I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law

Marco Rubio

#5. May the fire of St. Anthony fly up thy fundament.

Francois Rabelais

#6. My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

Albert Camus

#7. If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

Peter Singer

#8. Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

Dougray Scott

#9. I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

Beanie Sigel

#10. Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#11. Her stomach was in ropes, her heart in tatters.

Marissa Meyer

#12. When I was a child, I used to look at the sky and wonder how were stars fixed on the canopy and why didn't they fall on Earth. I also wondered why they disappeared in day time. When I grew up, all my questions got answered, but I lost my innocence.

Tarif Naaz

#13. Trust yourself. Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else's.

Jeffrey Fry

#14. Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Catherine Opie