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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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