what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything. — Robert Coover 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
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.” — Edmund Blunden Copy Share Image
“attitudes were increasingly rejected; and now, in the twenty-first century, much of the energy and creative thinking in our culture operates off… — Heath White 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
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
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
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
“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
“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its… — Kirk Varnedoe Copy Share Image
“Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“It was then that Brown took his revenge upon the world which, after twenty years of contemptuous and reckless bullying, refused him… — Joseph Conrad 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
“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?”… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.” — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.' — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
