Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)” — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist? — Robert Hughes 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if… — Virginia Woolf 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
“---In his major phase, he[Conrad] was "ahead of his times" in ideas and techniques;and this was because he was more intelligently and… — Cedric Watts A Preface to Conrad p184 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
“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to… — Milan Kundera 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
“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
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
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
“...a little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what… — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. — Alexander Stoddart Copy Share Image
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.” — Lance Olsen Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean.” — Blaise Cendrars 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
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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