Modernism Quotes

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

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.

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

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

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

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

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