Design Quote by Marcel Wanders

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

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the…

— Paul Rand

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

— Tom Turner

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

— Robert Venturi

Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and almost always…

— Vito Acconci

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

“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

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

— Phillip E. Johnson

A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and…

— Philip Pullman

The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created…

— Marcel Wanders