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
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
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
“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
“Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is “incredulity toward metanarratives” is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to… — James K.A. Smith 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
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
“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
“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
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
“That’s why the coffee house in the Age of Enlightenment and the Parisian salons of modernism were such engines of creativity; they… — Sean Patrick 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
“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
“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea… — David Bowie 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
“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge… — Sjon Copy Share Image
You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow -… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation.… — Peter Slipper 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
“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“In the eyes of postmoderns, then, modernism has failed, both as a prediction of progress and as a moral framework for culture.… — Heath White Copy Share Image
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
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