Art Quote by Will Self

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence,…

— Ali Smith

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

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

“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

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner

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

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

— Robert Venturi

“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

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

— Louis Menand