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“I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the…

— Evelyn Waugh

“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.”

— Sverker Sörlin

It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.

— Steve Coogan

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines,…

— Jean-François Lyotard

“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of…

— Evelyn Waugh

“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

“Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism, in the…

— Chris Kraus

“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

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

“He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word “postmodernist.”

— Donna Tartt

There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels…

— Marc Maron

“In the words of Marcel Marceau...”

— Tim Watson