Modernism Quotes
Modernism Quote of the day
If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.
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.
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.
If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.
Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives is not a good one.
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
