“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
“That's why moderns have to have hobbies. They can't find satisfaction in their money-earning work, so many seek creative satisfaction in model… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“There is no escape. Eight billion humans won’t escape their issues by going to space. Our planet needs no terraforming, no cosmic… — Juan Pablo Quiñonez Copy Share Image
“Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
“Modernism was based on a kind of arrogance ... and led designers to believe that if they thought of something cool, it… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“The great metanarrative of progress and conquest has run aground on the shoals of environmental concern and a loss of confidence in… — Anthony B. Robinson Copy Share Image
“That’s why the coffee house in the Age of Enlightenment and the Parisian salons of modernism were such engines of creativity; they… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“Modernism’s constant quest to find a single, all-encompassing solution to humanity’s problems was considered to be silly, naive and delusional by the… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses,… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and… — David K. Naugle Copy Share Image
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