Freedom Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

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

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

— Ai Weiwei

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

— Robert Venturi

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

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and…

— Will Self

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

— Mason Cooley

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

— Arthur Erickson

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter…

— Phillip E. Johnson

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

— Tom Turner