Interest Quote by Peter Gay Download Open image “What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.” — Peter Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interest Modernism
I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and almost always… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
“Cotton Mather lusted all his life for the presidency of Harvard, a post his father had held, and which the son affected to despise,… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands; simplicity allays… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use.… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future,… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it… — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
