1930s Quote by George Nelson Download Open image “Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.” — George Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1930s Late Modern Responsible Taste
Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, products and tastes developed in America have increasingly influenced lifestyles in Europe, whereas in previous centuries, it was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s. — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic.… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the revival theaters… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered,… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were — George Nelson Copy Share Image
You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking. — George Nelson Copy Share Image
What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
“About arrows - "They prick, cajole, exhort, sell, direct; and there is no way of measuring the amount of brain damage they do. It… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes.… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. — George Nelson Copy Share Image
“We also like obsolete styles because the past is dead, and hence contains no surprises.” — George Nelson Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with… — James Frain Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We`re a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. — James Meade Copy Share Image
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews.… — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image