what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Shout the truth, if you want to degoogle the google.” Says Bhutta” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.” — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.' — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its… — Kirk Varnedoe Copy Share Image
“Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere –… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'?… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota Copy Share Image
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“We have become so preoccupied in clicking, capturing and caging memories that we have forgotten to live them first.” — Mitali Meelan Copy Share Image
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
