19th century Quote by Eva Zeisel

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

“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again…

— Peter Watson

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…

— Will Self

Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened…

— Jane Jacobs

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

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

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

— Roger Scruton

“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

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the…

— Paul Rand

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom