“We have become so preoccupied in clicking, capturing and caging memories that we have forgotten to live them first.” — Mitali Meelan Copy Share Image
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“In the eyes of postmoderns, then, modernism has failed, both as a prediction of progress and as a moral framework for culture.… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Lyotard has described the postmodern condition succinctly as "incredulity towards metanarratives":' an attitude commendable in itself, no doubt, but also one that… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
“The world is going to crack in half: that's what is happening! And it will break across us, the old people...we don't… — Valentin Rasputin Copy Share Image
People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“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
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
“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies… — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
Short attention span is the new avant-garde. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is “incredulity toward metanarratives” is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter 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
“…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
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
“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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
“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
“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
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. — Terry Eagleton 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
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
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
