Adventure Quote by Will Gompertz

“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it…

— Tobin Wilson

“In the eyes of postmoderns, then, modernism has failed, both as a prediction of progress and as a moral framework for culture. As a…

— Heath White

“Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other. The postmodernists are very good…

— Douglas Wilson

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

— John Walford

“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

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

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

— Mason Cooley

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines,…

— Jean-François Lyotard

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

“Instead, the timeless, recurring problems that make us human—those are ambitious problems to tackle. Some”

— Ryan Holiday

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

— Jane Jacobs

“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and class make…

— David K. Naugle