In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social… — R. D. Laing 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
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“What do I think was modernism’s subject, then? What was it about? No doubt you can guess my starting point. It was… — T. J. Clark Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less… — Flaubert Gustave 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
“There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism… — Miguel Syjuco 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
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
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
