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Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs. — David Guterson
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism. — Peter Gay
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to… — Will Self
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides,… — Leon Krier
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. — Leonard Baskin
The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. — Rabindranath Tagore
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my… — D. H. Lawrence
I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove… — Georges Braque
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… — Jean Cocteau
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's… — Anthony Burgess
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores… — Theodor Adorno
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. — Harold Rosenberg
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have… — Edward Weston
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. — Clement Greenberg
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part… — Clement Greenberg
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around… — Rupert Sheldrake
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. — Ai Weiwei
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled… — Louise Bourgeois
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. — Paula Rego
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. — Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's. — Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. — Walter Darby Bannard

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