The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.” — Norman Hartley Copy Share Image
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did. — Irving Sandler Copy Share Image
“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round… — Ali Smith 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
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents.… — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image
I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
“ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? VLADIMIR: (impatiently). Yes, yes, we’re magicians. But let… — Samuel Beckett 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
“Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older,… — Frederic Jameson Copy Share Image
“modernity is positivist while post-modernity is relativist; modernity is based on industrial production while post-modernity is based on information flows; modernity generates… — John Monaghan 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
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
“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight;… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism, the school of "thought" that proclaimed "There are no truths, only interpretations" has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr 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
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo 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
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti 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
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“The great metanarrative of progress and conquest has run aground on the shoals of environmental concern and a loss of confidence in… — Anthony B. Robinson 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
