Frantic Quote by Raymond Loewy

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art.

— Gao Xingjian

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

— Tom Turner

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking…

— Edmund White

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

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

People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence,…

— Ali Smith

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists…

— Virginia Postrel