Arbitrary Quote by Larry Wall

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's…

— Larry Wall

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

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

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

— Robert Hewison

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

— David Guterson

“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere – that was…

— Douglas Murray

I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we have people…

— Lawrence Jordan

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone…

— Billy Corgan

The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting…

— John Berger

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

— Luca Guadagnino

“This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what’s really going…

— David Foster Wallace

“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate…

— John Leonard