Beauty Quote by Roger Scruton

“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again…

— Peter Watson

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve.…

— Eva Zeisel

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

“Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.”

— Pierre Bayard

By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and…

— Steven Pinker

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

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

— Clement Greenberg

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

— Theaster Gates

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

— Barnett Newman

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect or apply…

— Carrie Brownstein

“I argue that the first image-makers were acting rationally in the specific social circumstances ... they were not driven by ‘aesthetics’.”

— James David Lewis-Williams