I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
Larry Ellison
ArtStartMuseumsModernGotGoing
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
Herbert Read
WorkArtSaidModernSymbol
I have to keep working because, although I have land, I'm not cash rich and don't have the wealth of high-profile actresses - don't say I'm an 'actor.' That's a bit too modern.
Miriam Margolyes
RichWealthSayActorLandModern
Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
Imre Kertesz
LifeYouModernExampleMostOther
If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.
Glenn Danzig
HelpI CanGoModernDoctors
Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.
Liz Williams
ModernShapedAnyDiverseAuthors
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
WorkArtDistanceAudienceModern
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges Bernanos
MoreRightsAnythingModernState
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad
SeaModernHighwayMakeShipsMuch
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
Garet Garrett
BusinessRevolutionModernCase
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway
BookAmericanLiteratureMarkModern
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
Douglas Coupland
TimeWealthEconomyModernAbout
It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
Dan Hicks
BetterRetroModernNoteSounds
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
Eric Allin Cornell
ModernOld-FashionedPartly
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
Deepak Chopra
MedicineBodyYour BodyModernYour
The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
Dan Auerbach
Video GamesThreeKindGamesModern
The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
Ellen Key
LoveMarriageLove IsSocietyModern
I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true.
Cornelia Parker
I CanSayTrueThingsModernSaw
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Dylan Thomas
WeekDevelopmentOverRailwayModern
I don't listen to much modern composition.
Colin Greenwood
ListenModernCompositionMuch
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
David Copperfield
MagicModernThemesOccultDemonic
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Boris Pasternak
WritingEasyModernTranslationFar
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.
Charles Jencks
ArchitectureModernBeingDifferent
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Arthur Goldberg
ProblemMouthOpenModernApproach
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