Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

    Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
    Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    Civilization is a conspiracy.... Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
    John Buchan (1875–1940)

    And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
    A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)