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Modernism Quotes

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Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
Leonard Baskin

Authors on Modernism Quotes: Mason Cooley Peter Gay Walter Darby Bannard Robert Hughes Arthur Erickson Leonard Baskin Robert Hewison Jane Jacobs Ed Askew R. D. Laing John Crowe Ransom Eric Hoffer Roger Scruton Terry Eagleton Jonathan Lethem Diana Souhami Irving Sandler Theaster Gates Jean Baudrillard Christian Lacroix James Elkins Raymond Loewy
2.
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison

3.
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
John Crowe Ransom

4.
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
Raymond Loewy

5.
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
Walter Darby Bannard

6.
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Eric Hoffer

7.
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
Terry Eagleton

8.
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
Walter Darby Bannard

9.
You are born modern, you do not become so.
Jean Baudrillard

10.
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.
Irving Sandler

11.
Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.
Theaster Gates

12.
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Peter Gay

13.
Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.
Robert Hughes

14.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Christian Lacroix

15.
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

17.
It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.
James Elkins

18.
Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.
Diana Souhami

19.
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.
Robert Hughes

20.
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
Mason Cooley

21.
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.
R. D. Laing

22.
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

23.
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
Peter Gay

24.
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
Jonathan Lethem

25.
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

26.
Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.
Mason Cooley