Quotes for All
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. Eva Zeisel
For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates, 18 x 24 format, artistic documents of the beautiful civil architecture of the 16th to the 19th century: the old hôtels, historic or curious houses, beautiful facades, beautiful doors, beautiful … Read more
The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, it’s a mirror with a memory. Errol Morris
We’ve wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means – have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption … Read more
I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn’t mean it is such a good one. Erich Fromm
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. Erich Fromm
I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;… but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, … Read more
A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody’s pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you’re like, \”This isn’t a doctor! I would like to … Read more
All of women’s stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you’ve made some great error leading you down … Read more
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular. Elizabeth Gilbert