Modernism Quotes

Don't call me a Postmodern!

— Wayne Rooney

“Ai, que preguiça!”

— Anonymous

“Is there a Swedish Modernism?”

— Cecilia Widenheim

“Shite and onions!”

— James Joyce

“It's ugly, but is it art?”

— Randall Jarrell

“I chase goals, not girls.”

— Amit Kalantri

Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.

— Diana Souhami

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

— Lewis Carroll

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

— Christian Lacroix

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

— Leonard Baskin

“Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.”

— Amit Kalantri

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.”

— David Foster Wallace

“If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.”

— John Cage

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

— Angela Carter

“He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with…

— Stephen King

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

— David Luiz

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and…

— George C. Wolfe

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

— Robert Venturi

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

— John Walford

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents.…

— Skeet Ulrich

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

Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects…

— Anonymous

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive…

— Eva Zeisel

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and…

— David Mitchell

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

“In this day and age — the great age of modernists — you don’t ruin a love by being unfaithful or unjust;…

— Laura Chouette

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there…

— Louise Bourgeois

The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space,…

— Bjarke Ingels

“Every period had its style: why was it that our period was the only one to be denied a style? By “style”…

— Adolf Loos

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)…

— Peter Kreeft

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually…

— David Hockney

Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,…

— Adam Morris

“As Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine noted, modernity has turned us all into Jews. ("The Jewish Century," 2004.) Modernism is the dysfunction that…

— Henry Makow

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance…

— Arthur Eddington

Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."…

— Jane Jacobs

War is the highest form of modern art.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.”

— Jack Cashill