Distorted-appearance Quote by M.H. Rakib

“Everyone knows which way modernism is going, you create a form by breaking up a form, in an endless regression, just let it continue,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“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

“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

“It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it’s hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything…

— Margaret MacMillan

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

“But I see now that our future lies not in building beautiful havens from the ugliness in society, but in building a different kind…

— J.P. Delaney

“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 is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea…

— Marcel Wanders

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom