Modernism Quotes

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

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

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

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

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

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

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

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

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

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

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

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

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

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

Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.