Continuity Quote by Le Corbusier

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -…

— Marshall Berman

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

— George Scialabba

To be modern is to be aware of what is going on.

— Sonia Rykiel

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

— Wallace Stevens

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

— Joseph Goebbels

“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

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

— Theodore Bikel

The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea…

— Marsden Hartley

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

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

“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.”

— Dante Alighieri