Thinking Quote by Virginia Dwan

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

— Peter Asher

Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of…

— Gary Krist

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It…

— Jonas Mekas

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and…

— Billy Connolly

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is…

— Elisa Kreisinger

I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the '20s. Also,…

— Babette Mangolte

I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style…

— Jenny Packham

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think…

— Mike Love

Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

I loved New York in the '50s.

— Orson Bean

“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour,…

— Michel de Certeau