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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

You just are born the way that you're born.

In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.