Century Quotes - Page 37

• I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

  Berenice Abbott

  Fighting, Alive, Lasts

  "Berenice Abbott: the photography trailblazer who had supersight" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2015.

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• One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Meaningful, Art, Attitude

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• It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.

  John Pfahl

  Art, Sublime, Trying

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• Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

  Victor Hugo

  Food, Character, People

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• I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.

  Ray Winstone

  Kids, Mouths, Doe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

  Hortense Calisher

  Time, Ends, Faster

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

  Celia Green

  Children, People, Marrying

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Issues, People, Adequate

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Paris, Consistency, Style

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, Bureaucracy, 21st Century

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?

  Ella Winter

  Two, Long, Community

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• the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Political, Poor Nations, Rich

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• somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  School, History, Moral

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• Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Cash, Tailors, Hats

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• some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Glasses, Years, Office

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• State are not made, nor patched; they grow;
  Grow slow through centuries of pain,
  And grow correctly in the main;
  But only grow by certain laws,
  Of certain bits in certain jaws.

  John Masefield

  Pain, Government, Law

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wrestling, Men, Careers

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Queens, Writing, Dust

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• Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Hymns, America

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• The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Claims, Fraud, Downtrodden

  Phyllis Schlafly (2003). “Feminist fantasies”, Spence Pub

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• For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

  Eva Figes

  Reality, Wish, Prejudice

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• Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.

  Mark Lilla

  Strong, Writing, Europe

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• Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Strong, Sex, Women

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• The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Mean, Men

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• To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Mother, Ignorance, Responsibility

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