Confrontation Quote by Sergey Akhromeyev

What we do is pretty stylised. It hasn't got mass appeal. This, combined with the fact that we've never been over-exposed, seems to have…

— Ron Mael

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what…

— Rowan Williams

I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a…

— Warren Ellis

People should try to create a style within their own era.

— Marky Ramone

The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The…

— Hilary Mantel

“The new home fashion will be spare. This will be the return of an old WASP style: the good, frayed carpet; dogs that look…

— Peggy Noonan

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.

— Iggy Pop

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic

— Anonymous

We don't like trends. We formed initially because we felt we had something of our own to say. What was happening was lacking in…

— Siouxsie Sioux

“i mean talk about decadence," he declared, "how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country's probably the psychiatric, psychoanalytical…

— Richard Yates

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of…

— Alvin Lustig

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