Modernism Quotes

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Work, End, Become

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.
Billy Corgan

Thinking, Knowing, Anyone

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
Arthur Erickson

Took, Advantage, Build

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur Erickson

Freedom, Everything, Before

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Larry Wall

Music, Science, Against

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
Tadao Ando

Two, Cannot, Between

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti

Time, Nothing, Off

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Christian Lacroix

Design, Except, Exists

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
Dita Von Teese

Beautiful, Past, Someone

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.
Skeet Ulrich

Long, Living, Cold

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
Brad Holland

Reality, Real, Used

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
John C. Ransom

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

God, Dead, Realize

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
John C. Ransom

Poetry, Escape, Arts

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Peter Gay

While, Took, Develop

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
Peter Gay

Interested, Interests

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.
Peter Slipper

Faith, Help, Person

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison

Optimism, Taken

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