I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar… — John Currin Copy Share Image
Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
“These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating… — Nancy Ross Rosenberger Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain… — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger… — Joseph Kerman Copy Share Image
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of… — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then,… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts - but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“the postmodern critique is not aimed at metanarratives because they are really grounded in narratives; on the contrary, the problem with metanarratives… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.'… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“kids could and did swim in it happily as in their native element, at least until some teacher or professor told them… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To the mind (Geist), good and evil, above and below, are not skeptical, relative concepts, but terms of a function, values that… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
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