“What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.” WayMeanArtProblemSituationModernFindingsApproachArt IsPainfulFixedNew WaysDefiniteExpress YourselfBourgeoisModernismModern ArtPainful Situations Book:Bourgeois Source: Bourgeois
“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.” ThinkingLyingSituationComedyModernDramaGreekPerformersGreek Drama Author:Brendan Coyle
“I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.” PeopleThinkingFilmSituationModernHorrorJokesPostsReally GreatHorror Film Author:Guillermo del Toro
“A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.” EnoughSoundSituationModernBandLowsBassDenseCymbals Author:James Hetfield
“I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.” MayDoeFeltSituationKnownCasesModernInspireTheoryElementsDeterminationMethodDefinedRemarksDynamicsSampleParametersInferenceStatistician Book:Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Source: Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine