“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.” ArtArtistLossAudienceModernArt IsConcernArchitectureProgressiveModern Art Author:Paul Gauguin
“In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.” ThinkingWorldArtDoneReligiousLossDealsModernPaintingReturnEternalLosingDamageCustomsOur WorldSecularModern Art Author:Antoni Tapies
“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.” MenFeelingsSpiritCultureLostLossResultsEmotionBrainModernIdentityDegreesHighestTrainingAspectWestForgottenEducationalSensesContemporaryReasoningAestheticInwardAlienationTruestRestlessnessEducational SystemModern ManHis Loss Author:Kallistos Ware
“My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.” NamesLossLevelsCitiesEnemyModernNew YorkBoundariesBoredPrivacyVillageConformityTerritorySplitsModern LifeNew York TimesSuburbsHousewifeIndescribableShotguns Book:John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming, but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.” ThinkingWorldIdeasRealSpeakWaterLossModernIndividualityGenuineHeightMultitudesComing BackFoeModern WorldPrimalUnstoppableUndeadClaustrophobiaPrimal Fear Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily basis, modest weight loss - translated into a 58% reduction in the occurrence of diabetes. A clear indication of the power of lifestyle over health. The challenge now is the development of the community-based programs that will translate what we learned in the diabetes prevention program and put it to work in every town in America.” ChallengesLossModernHealthyProgramPlantLifestyleSensibleNutritionTranslateModestWeight LossDiabetesHealthy Diet Author:David Katz
“I think that we are passionate creatures who really live our fullest life when we are deeply engaged, when we feel successes, and exult in them, when we feel losses and tragedies and are hurt by them. So I came to the conclusion that Eastern ideas of withdrawal may not be right for modern Westerners. If you read the ancient texts, they're pretty severe. I mean, they really are not the sort of thing that you would think compatible with really throwing yourself into life and being a part of it.” ThinkingMeanHurtLossModernTragedyAncientPassionateConclusionEastern Author:Jonathan Haidt
“President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.” JobsPresidentLossWatchesModernMy FriendsBarackAmerican HistoryPresident Barack ObamaInconvenientInconvenient TruthJob Loss Author:Mitt Romney
“Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.” TryingYearsLossModernBalanceActivityConsequenceAspectInvestmentFinancialScalesTraditionalGamblingMassiveSheetsBankingLendingRetailCasinosBalance SheetsInvestment Banking Author:Vince Cable