Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old modernism quotes, modernism sayings, and modernism proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.Salvador Dali
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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.James Elkins
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Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical pastRoger Scruton
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Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.Robert Hughes
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A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.Philip Pullman
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.Albert Camus
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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.Will Self
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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.Robert Hewison
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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.Bryan Appleyard
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Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.Robert Venturi
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.James Fenton
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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
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.Oscar Wilde
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Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.Theaster Gates
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Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.Eva Zeisel
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.Arthur Erickson
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.Paul de Man
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Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.Tom Turne