“Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)” — Tom McDonough 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
“Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the modern love change you too much that you forget what it is to live with kindness and compassion. From… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“jSimplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” — J.F.Lyotard The POstmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Copy Share Image
“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for… — Heath White Copy Share Image
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
“In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but… — William E. Hordern Copy Share Image
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“Therefore, it is a combination of the two factors—widespread skepticism about reason and socialism’s being in crisis—that is necessary to give rise… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor… — Anonymous 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
“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
Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums.… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
“The revolution is just a T-shirt away. - Waiting for the Great Leap Forward ” — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory. — Kara Ross Copy Share Image
“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“In postmodernism we find metaphysical antirealism, epistemological subjectivity, the placing of feeling at the root of all value issues, the consequent relativism… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that… — Fredric Jameson 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
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
“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
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
