Definitions Quote by Peter Gay Download Open image “My definition of modernism took a while to develop.” — Peter Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Definitions Modernism
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for lack of… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“Cotton Mather lusted all his life for the presidency of Harvard, a post his father had held, and which the son affected to despise,… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands; simplicity allays… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use.… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future,… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
