Communication Quote by Robert Venturi

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

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

— John Walford

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

— Kathy Acker

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

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the…

— Miguel Syjuco

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

— Robert Hewison

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something…

— Luca Guadagnino

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

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

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

— Luca Guadagnino

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay