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38 quotesWhat distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Arts and Artists
Octavio Paz
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Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Critics and Criticism
Channing Pollock
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
War
Ezra Pound
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
Credit
Upton Sinclair
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Vulgarity
Dame Edith Sitwell
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Literature
Susan Sontag
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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
Mind
Roger Sperry
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Platitudes
Oscar Wilde
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Modern and Modernism
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Information
Oscar Wilde
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Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
Debt
Earl Wilson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun