“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'?… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard 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
“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
“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
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. — Mason Cooley 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
The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. — Ai Weiwei 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
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
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks 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
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist? — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
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
