Nineteenth Century Quotes - Page 10

• I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reading, Matter, Details

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Years, Directors, Century

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

  David Brinkley

  Agency, Government, Female

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• Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

  Robert Hughes

  Political, Intellectual, World

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, Knopf

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• The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

  John Moody

  Ohio, Interesting, Baltimore

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

  Kenneth Clark

  Photography, Artist, Invention

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry.

  Kenneth Clark

  Photography, Mean, Artist

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.

  Christopher Alexander

  Loss, Men, Intellectual

  Christopher Alexander (1964). “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.

  Hugh Hardy

  Creative Juices, Mold, Pieces

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• If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Progress, Culture

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Football, Struggle

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, even in his own country.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Dream, Country, Memories

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• Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.

  David Finckel

  Musician, Levels, Able

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Practice, Moral, Influence

  Henry Steele Commager (1961). “The American Mind”

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• America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  America, Twenties, Entering

  "Reengineering the Corporation". Book by James A. Champy and Michael Martin Hammer, p. 30, 1993.

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• The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Christian, War, Hangover

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• Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Sound, Half

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independence, Delight, Nervous

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

  John Ruskin

  Men, Poison, Daguerreotypes

  Robert Hewison, Ian Warrell, John Ruskin, Stephen Wildman, Tate Britain (Gallery) (2000). “Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites”, Tate Gallery Pubn

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• The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.

  Andre Breton

  Photography, Writing, Artist

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• I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.

  Richard Grossman

  Life Changing, Writing, School

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.

  Peter C Bunnell

  Memories, Mirrors, Way

  Peter C. Bunnell (2006). “Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography”, Aperture

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• Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Memories, Distance

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• Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

  Vik Muniz

  Photography, Thinking, Way

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• Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Years, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “A Square Deal”

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