“Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.” — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris. — Diana Souhami Copy Share Image
“…and that's how we lost our ways, because more than modernism we like to love its distorted appearance.” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
“Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.” — Edmund Blunden Copy Share Image
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but… — William E. Hordern Copy Share Image
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Therefore, it is a combination of the two factors—widespread skepticism about reason and socialism’s being in crisis—that is necessary to give rise… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“In postmodernism we find metaphysical antirealism, epistemological subjectivity, the placing of feeling at the root of all value issues, the consequent relativism… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?”… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Post-Modernism (n.): That period that comes between Modernism (q.v.) and Post-Post-Modernism. Modernists think that Science makes it possible for us to know… — Donald T. Williams Copy Share Image
“I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
