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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison
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There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
Raymond Loewy
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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Eric Hoffer
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
Terry Eagleton
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It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.
Irving Sandler
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Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.
Theaster Gates
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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Peter Gay
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Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.
Robert Hughes
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Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.
Roger Scruton
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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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It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.
James Elkins
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Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.
Diana Souhami
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I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.
Robert Hughes
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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
Mason Cooley
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.
R. D. Laing
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The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.
Jane Jacobs
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
Peter Gay
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what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
Jonathan Lethem
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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.
Ed Askew
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Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.
Mason Cooley