Modernism Quotes

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

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

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'

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

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.