Age Quote by Eric Kandel

Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything…

— Margaret MacMillan

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

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 does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based on the…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and science at…

— Walter Isaacson

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

— Bryan Appleyard

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association…

— Albert Einstein

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

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

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 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

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom