Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
I am a writer of fragments.
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.