Democracy Quote by Ai Weiwei

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner

By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own…

— Dan Cruickshank

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it…

— Tobin Wilson

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea…

— Marcel Wanders

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for lack of…

— Heath White

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

— Arthur Erickson

Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything…

— Margaret MacMillan

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

— Robert Venturi