About Quote by Dita Von Teese

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

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

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

— Jane Jacobs

Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and almost always…

— Vito Acconci

The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created…

— Marcel Wanders

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through…

— Ed Askew

I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something…

— Luca Guadagnino

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

— Porter Robinson

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of…

— William Wordsworth

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have…

— Kate Atkinson

I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made…

— Jessica Chastain