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Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the… — Kay WalkingStick
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the… — Mark Kostabi
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing… — Billy Corgan
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. — Salvador Dali
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. — Arthur Erickson
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. — Arthur Erickson
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as… — James Fenton
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or… — James Fenton
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism. — Paul Rand
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. — Ronald Reagan
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. — John Ruskin
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character… — Will Self
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is… — William Wordsworth
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view… — Martin Filler
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This… — Eva Zeisel
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? — Jonathan Lethem
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of… — Francis Schaeffer
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with… — Erich Fromm
If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. — Zakir Naik
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the… — Martin Filler

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