Art Quote by Louis Menand

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

— Angela Carter

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

— Kathy Acker

“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

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera

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

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

— Robert Hughes

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Tom Turner

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

— Kara Ross