Between Quote by Kathy Acker

I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise…

— Grant Morrison

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

— Robert Venturi

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

— Robert Hughes

“Post-Modernism (n.): That period that comes between Modernism (q.v.) and Post-Post-Modernism. Modernists think that Science makes it possible for us to know everything perfectly…

— Donald T. Williams

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

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

— Louis Menand

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

— John Walford

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that…

— Jonathan Raban

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

— Jonathan Lethem

“Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other. The postmodernists are very good…

— Douglas Wilson

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten…

— Fredric Jameson