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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."

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.



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

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




Modernism Quotes: "Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past"

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past



Modernism Quotes: "What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?"

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?




Modernism Quotes: "Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion."

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.



Modernism Quotes: "I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism."

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.



Modernism Quotes: "Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art."

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.




Modernism Quotes: "Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects."

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.



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

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



Modernism Quotes: "Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.



Modernism Quotes: "When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build."

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.



Modernism Quotes: "There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'"

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'




Modernism Quotes: "And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined."

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.



Modernism Quotes: "Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's."

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.



Modernism Quotes: "When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it."

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.



Modernism Quotes: "Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism."

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.



Modernism Quotes: "Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur"

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur



Modernism Quotes: "Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time."

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.



Modernism Quotes: "You are born modern, you do not become so."

You are born modern, you do not become so.



Modernism Quotes: "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."

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.



Modernism Quotes: "It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did."

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.



Modernism Quotes: "Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was."

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.



Modernism Quotes: "Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.



Modernism Quotes: "The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition."

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.



Modernism Quotes: "My definition of modernism took a while to develop."

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.



Modernism Quotes: "Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment."

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.



Modernism Quotes: "Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly."

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



Modernism Quotes: "Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic."

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.



Modernism Quotes: "French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.



Modernism Quotes: "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."

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.



Modernism Quotes: "Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination."

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.



Modernism Quotes: "One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures."

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.



Modernism Quotes: "The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?



Modernism Quotes: "Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success."

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.



Modernism Quotes: "It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art."

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.



Modernism Quotes: "Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists."

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.



Modernism Quotes: "I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between."

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.



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

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



Modernism Quotes: "Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism."

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.



Modernism Quotes: "Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art."

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.



Modernism Quotes: "A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism."

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.



Modernism Quotes: "I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity."

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.



Modernism Quotes: "But this wealth of information produced little or no insight."

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.



Modernism Quotes: "If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not."

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.



Modernism Quotes: "There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism."

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.



Modernism Quotes: "The modernist writers found despair inspirational."

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.



Modernism Quotes: "Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives is not a good one."

Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives is not a good one.



Modernism Quotes: "In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood."

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.



Modernism Quotes: "What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism."

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