Definitions Quote by 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

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

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

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

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

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

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

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

“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

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

— Tom Turner