Modernism

Anton Chekhov

Literature

Modernism

1860–1904

"The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!"

🇺🇸F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature

modernism

1896–1940

"If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them."

🇺🇸Vladimir Nabokov

Literature

modernism

1912–1977

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

🇺🇸Gertrude Stein

Literature

Modernism

1874–1946

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

🇫🇷Claude Monet

Art

Modernism

1840–1926

"is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time."

🇦🇺Patrick White

Literature

Modernism

1912–1990

"If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden."

🇺🇸William Carlos Williams

poetry

Modernism

1883–1963

"Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels."

T. E. Hulme

Literature

Modernism

1883–1917

"The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you."

Amrita Sher-Gil

Art

modernism

1913–1941

"I am always in love, but unfortunately for the party concerned, I fall out of love or rather fall in love with someone else before any damage can be done."

🇷🇺Marina Tsvetaeva

Literature

modernism

1892–1941

"What is the main thing in love? To know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding overpowers the knowing . The passion for the hidden — the passion for the revealed."

🇺🇸Louis Sullivan

Art

Modernism

1856–1924

"An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet … this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times."

🇺🇸Francis Schaeffer

Philosophy

Modernism

1912–1984

"Official Frank Schaeffer website, writer, film director, and son of Francis Schaeffer"

🇺🇸Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Education

modernism

1886–1969

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

Jamal-al-Din Afghani

Politics

Modernism

1839–1897

"Seyyed Jamaluddin Asadabadi, the Founder of the Pan-Islamic Front"

🇫🇷Pierre Bonnard

Art

Modernism

1867–1947

"It would bother me if my canvases were stretched onto a frame. I never know in advance what dimensions I am going to choose."

🇦🇺Patrick White (American football)

Literature

Modernism

1912–1990

"He's probably the fastest guy on the field at any time...And he's the quarterback."

🇫🇷Constantin Brâncuși

Art

Modernism

1876–1957

"When we are no longer young we are already dead"

🇬🇧Hope Mirrlees

Literature

Modernism

1887–1978

"Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he never can tell."

🇺🇸Hart Crane

Literature

modernism

1899–1932

"Spanish Translations of Hart Crane by Raúl Racedo, Argentina"

🇨🇭Jan Tschichold

Modernism

1902–1974

"The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements."

Henry James

Literature

Modernism

1843–1916

"Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?"

"The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."

🇺🇸Georgia O'Keeffe

Art

Modernism

1887–1986

"I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness."

🇬🇧Paul Nash (artist)

Art

Modernism

1889–1946

"I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision."