In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

G.K. Chesterton

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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.

Marcel Proust

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But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Stephen King

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The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

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...if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?

H.D.

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For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

Jonathan Lethem

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He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Stephen King

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In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.

William E. Hordern

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Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

Ellen Lupton

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In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.

Robert Hughes

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