Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota Copy Share Image
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
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
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
“Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Post-Modernism (n.): That period that comes between Modernism (q.v.) and Post-Post-Modernism. Modernists think that Science makes it possible for us to know… — Donald T. Williams Copy Share Image
“I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere –… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. — Paula Rego 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 wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did. — Irving Sandler Copy Share Image
“When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.” — Norman Hartley Copy Share Image
“This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
