Modernism Quote by John Crowe Ransom Download Open image “And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.” — John Crowe Ransom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modernism Undefined
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 Copy Share Image
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Tell this to ladies: how a hero man Assail a thick and scandalous giant Who casts true shadow in the sun, And die, but… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent -… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
