“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and… — Tobin Wilson Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses,… — Jean-François Lyotard 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
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued… — Jean Baudrillard 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
“General theories are everywhere condemned; the doctrine of the Rights of Man is dismissed with the doctrine of the Fall of Man.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory… — Grant H. Kester 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
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi 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
“kids could and did swim in it happily as in their native element, at least until some teacher or professor told them… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part… — Paul Rand 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
“the postmodern critique is not aimed at metanarratives because they are really grounded in narratives; on the contrary, the problem with metanarratives… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist… — Catharine MacKinnon 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
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is… — Lyman Abbott 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
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
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts - but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of… — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then,… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger… — Joseph Kerman Copy Share Image
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain… — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar… — John Currin Copy Share Image
Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
