Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)” — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
“...a little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what… — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
“On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of… — Hans Rookmaaker 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
Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Every period had its style: why was it that our period was the only one to be denied a style? By “style”… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. — Alexander Stoddart Copy Share Image
“postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean.” — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.” — Lance Olsen Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory. — Kara Ross Copy Share Image
I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“The revolution is just a T-shirt away. - Waiting for the Great Leap Forward ” — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
“jSimplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” — J.F.Lyotard The POstmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Copy Share Image
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
