Modernism Quote by Jane Jacobs

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

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

— Arthur Erickson

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

— 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

Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives…

— Emmanuel Macron

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

— Bryan Appleyard

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

“Everyone knows which way modernism is going, you create a form by breaking up a form, in an endless regression, just let it continue,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård