Modernism Quote by Tobin Wilson

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

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

“Modernism’s constant quest to find a single, all-encompassing solution to humanity’s problems was considered to be silly, naive and delusional by the Postmodernists.”

— Will Gompertz

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

— Phillip E. Johnson

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based on the…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

“Everyone knows which way modernism is going, you create a form by breaking up a form, in an endless regression, just let it continue,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen to be…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

— Mason Cooley

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

— Bryan Appleyard