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“In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic,…

— Frederic Jameson

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

— Robert Venturi

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

— Charles Baudelaire

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten…

— Fredric Jameson

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the…

— George Scialabba

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

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

— Sylvain Tesson

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that…

— Paul de Man

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

— John Walford

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

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,…

— Gilbert Adair