Modernism Quotes

110 Modernism quotes by 88 unique authors

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. — Robert Hewison
When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents… — Jean Guitton
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture… — Tadao Ando
Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so… — Kenny Smith
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford
My definition of modernism took a while to develop. — Peter Gay
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' — Raymond Loewy
Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris. — Unknown Author
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. — Unknown Author
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had… — Igor Stravinsky
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which… — John Berger
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold.… — Skeet Ulrich
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton
When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build. — Leonard Ravenhill
Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on… — James K. A. Smith
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. — Larry Wall
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still… — Larry Wall
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined. — John Crowe Ransom
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? — John Crowe Ransom
Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church… — Peter Slipper
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the… — Leslie Fiedler
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. — Christian Lacroix

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