Abandoned Quote by Mason Cooley

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

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical…

— John Berger

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

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

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

— Will Self

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

— Steve Coogan

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

— John Walford

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

Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives…

— Emmanuel Macron

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— David Guterson