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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

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. — Zakir Naik

The property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10 — Chris Hedges

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

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

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

Modernism has been consumed and remains partially digested in the belly of capital, awaiting occasional bouts of flatulence. — Nick Dunn

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

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

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

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

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight. — Stephen King

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

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas. — David Ohle

The man of the future will be young or he will not be. — Regis Debray

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

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

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

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

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford

The revolution is just a T-shirt away.

- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward — Billy Bragg

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

If you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal? — H.D.

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original
for 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

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

A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite. — Saira Viola

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

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

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself. — Mason Cooley

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

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. — F Scott Fitzgerald