Modern Era

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or era:

“Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)