Adapted Quote by Elias Canetti

“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for lack of…

— Heath White

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

“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it…

— Tobin Wilson

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

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

“The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy, of sex…

— Alexander Schmemann

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular…

— James May

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent…

— Anonymous

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

— Anonymous

Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that…

— Alberto Moravia

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera