“The reason for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegories should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness… — Max Raphael 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
“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 life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr 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
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston 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
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with… — D.H. Lawrence 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
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected… — Martin Filler 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
“That's why moderns have to have hobbies. They can't find satisfaction in their money-earning work, so many seek creative satisfaction in model… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. — Zakir Naik 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
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
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford 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
