Should Quote by Robert Hughes

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

— Kathy Acker

I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise…

— Grant Morrison

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

— Louis Menand

“Post-Modernism (n.): That period that comes between Modernism (q.v.) and Post-Post-Modernism. Modernists think that Science makes it possible for us to know everything perfectly…

— Donald T. Williams

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

— Anonymous

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

— Angela Carter

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

— Robert Venturi

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that…

— Jonathan Raban

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of…

— Alvin Lustig

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use…

— Tadao Ando

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom