A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our… — Sarah Vowell 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
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
“....and that's how we lost our ways, because more than modernism we like to love its distorted appearance.” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.'… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. — Ai Weiwei 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
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'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
“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
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
