I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.
Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.
the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong. )
We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!
Without a song, each day would be a century.
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World. '
The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory. "
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.