Classic Quote by John Currin

Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and almost always…

— Vito Acconci

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: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

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

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

— Louis Menand

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner

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

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through…

— Ed Askew

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something…

— Luca Guadagnino

I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.

— Peter Marino

“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