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The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It's the atomic age!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.
— Lance Olsen
It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.
— James Elkins
Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.
— Douglas Wilson
We entered an era of false alarms.
— Sara Novic
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
— Arthur Erickson
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
— G.K. Chesterton
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
— Christian Lacroix
What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
— Jonathan Lethem
Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.
— Douglas Wilson
The revoloution is just a T-shirt away.
— Billy Bragg
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
— Walter Darby Bannard
In one sense, (Duchamp's) "The Large Glass" is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.
— Robert Hughes
We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" ... and the death of post-modernism.
— Norman Davies
Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) — Tom McDonough
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. — Edmund Blunden
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
— David G. Hartwell
Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.
— Noam Chomsky
It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.
— Sverker Sorlin
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
— Raymond Loewy
When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.
— Jean Baudrillard
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
— Robert Venturi
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
— Mason Cooley
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
— David Guterson
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.
— Pope Pius XI
He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
— Stephen King
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
— Bryan Appleyard
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
— David F. Wells
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism ... and as things turned out, it was.
— Mel Bochner
Literature is language charged with meaning
— Ezra Pound
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
— Ai Weiwei
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!
— Joseph Conrad
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
— Mason Cooley
The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
— Jackson Pollock
It's ugly, but is it art?
— Randall Jarrell
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
— Walter Darby Bannard
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
— John Crowe Ransom
One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.
— E. M. Forster
Is there a Swedish Modernism?
— Cecilia Widenheim
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
Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The man of the future will be young or he will not be.
— Regis Debray
In India there's no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man's face and you'll find an old man's mind.
— Meghna Pant
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
— Robert Hewison
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
— G.K. Chesterton
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
— Arthur Erickson
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
— Clement Greenberg
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
— Roger Scruton
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
— Italo Svevo
When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.
— Norman Hartley
Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.
— Theaster Gates
And that's how we lost our ways, because more than modernism we like to love its distorted appearance.
— M.H. Rakib
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
— Eric Hoffer
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
— John Crowe Ransom
Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be originalfor anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did ... — Irving Sandler
Shite and onions!
— James Joyce
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.
— Vivian Gornick
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
— Roger Scruton
Mass(age) is the message.
— Jean Baudrillard
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
— F Scott Fitzgerald