Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

— Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

— Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the…

— George Scialabba

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables,…

— Orhan Pamuk

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that…

— Paul de Man

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a…

— Gianni Vattimo

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

— Theodor Adorno

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values,…

— Steven Pinker

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

— Sylvain Tesson

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

— Joseph Goebbels

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

— Anthony Daniels