Modernism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
-- Arthur Erickson -
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
-- Christian Lacroix -
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
-- David Guterson -
Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.
-- Diana Souhami -
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Cézanne through the 1950s.
-- Ed Askew -
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
-- Eric Hoffer -
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original--for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did...
-- Irving Sandler -
It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.
-- James Elkins -
You are born modern, you do not become so.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
-- John Crowe Ransom -
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
-- John Crowe Ransom -
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
-- Jonathan Lethem -
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
-- Leonard Baskin -
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
-- Peter Gay -
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
-- Peter Gay -
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
-- Raymond Loewy -
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
-- Robert Hewison -
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
-- Salvador Dali -
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
-- Wallace Stevens -
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
-- Walter Darby Bannard -
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
-- Walter Darby Bannard -
Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.
-- Theaster Gates
