Modernism Quote Quotes

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. ~ Robert Hewison

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

Is there a Swedish Modernism? ~ Cecilia Widenheim

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Billy Corgan

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

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

I believe that modernism itself is based on an error, an error in the understanding of who man is, an error in under- standing the nature of reality both metacosmic and cosmic. Modernism is based on an enormous deception, which is leading us to perdition and destroying the world. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. ~ Italo Svevo

'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes. ~ John Tavener

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

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been. ~ Peter Watson

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. ~ John Walford

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

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. ~ Odd Nerdrum

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. ~ Jean Francois Lyotard

What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? ~ Jonathan Lethem

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? ~ John Crowe Ransom

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. ~ Eva Zeisel

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

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. ~ Tom Turner

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins ... ~ Clement Greenberg

The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it - and if we cannot, they it is absurd and impossible and therefore nonexistent. ~ Tobin Wilson

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. ~ Luana Ehrlich

Every big dream begins with a little nap. ~ Yohann Dafeu

Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived for virtually his entire life, was the eye of the storm of this modernism; and was the birthplace of the linguistic philosophy that came to dominate the twentieth century. ~ Adam Phillips

If you want success, then be your own success story. ~ Steven Cuoco

I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying. ~ Liam Gillick

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it ... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me. ~ Paul Rand

I never did calligraphy ... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism ... It's part of that asceticism. ~ Paul Rand

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades. ~ Martin Filler

Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere – that was turning from ripeness to over-ripeness and then into something else. The last strains of the Austro-German Romantic tradition – exemplified by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Gustav Klimt – seemed almost to have destroyed itself by reaching a pitch of ripeness from which nothing could follow other than complete breakdown. It was not just that their subject matter was so death-obsessed, but that the tradition felt as though it could not be stretched any further or innovated any more without snapping. And so it snapped: in modernism and then post-modernism. ~ Douglas Murray

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. ~ Elias Canetti

The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved. ~ John Berger

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. ~ Steven Cuoco

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You are beyond the sky; so go there. ~ Steven Cuoco

I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground. ~ Will Self

The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness. It is an attempt to crush a rational opponent not by reason, but by some mystery of superiority, by hinting that one is specially up to date or particularly in the know. ~ G.K. Chesterton

If you want to conquer the stress,anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings. ~ Bhimsen Sapkota

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight ~ Laurie Nadel

Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological. ~ Roger Ebert

When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small? ~ Emem Uko

Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end. ~ Ken Poirot

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that. ~ Bobby Darnell

i want to rip out my heart before you get to it first. ~ Christina Strigas

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well. ~ Karon Waddell

The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? ... a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. ~ Philip Pullman

When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit. ~ Deborah Sandella

The more a customer buys INTO you; the more a customer will buy FROM you. ~ Troy Clark

He is our man's-man of literature. ~ Andrew Barger

Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry. ~ Kenneth Goldsmith

I think of you, therefore I exist. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, "Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I'll write Ulysses." ~ Philip Pullman

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier. ~ Ellen Lupton

You basically get paid according to the amount of time you invest. ~ Yohann Dafeu

Dont take tension, because it loose your dimension. ~ Zahid

Crisis is both danger and opportunity. ~ Chinese Quote

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate clothing. ~ Norwegian Quote

The secret to selling is to "sell the secret". Your sales presentation should make your product sound like the "best kept secret" in your entire industry. ~ Troy Clark

---In his major phase, he[Conrad] was "ahead of his times" in ideas and techniques;and this was because he was more intelligently and perceptively of his times than most writers then were. In his vigilant response to 19th century preoccupations, he anticipated--often critically--many 20th century preoccupations. He was a versatile intermediary between the Romantic and Victorian traditions and the innovations of Modernism. ~ Cedric Watts

Reaching up, reaching out,
and still we take you.
A tree quote from the song 'My Persephone ~ Andrea Koehle Jones

Selling is a form of serving the needs of others. ~ Troy Clark

Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life. ~ Ken Poirot

I was ... attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love. ~ Igor Stravinsky

When the vision of your dreams gets blurry remember to readjust your lens. ~ Angel Moreira

Success does not start at the top; it begins by deciding to get up from the bottom. ~ Ken Poirot

When you can inspire others to dream, learn, evolve, and become one that they can appreciate and respect themselves; then you have arrived as a leader. ~ Vishwas Chavan

We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery. ~ Steven Cuoco

Where are you?'
'I am between the light and the waves. ~ Laurie Nadel

So many good pages; so many good quotes. But please remember this: one single quote does not, cannot, and will not apply to all life experiences. ~ Charles F. Glassman

The only thing bothering me is, i am no more her priority now.. ~ Your Quote Us

God transformed the darkest day humankind had ever known into a new sunrise, and He can transform our darkest days into new birth as well. ~ Tessa Emily Hall

Sitacuisses philosaphus mansisses' If you had kept your mouth shut, we may have thought you were cleverer! ~ Latin Quote

With you, it's different.
It's like a coming home. ~ Nikki Rowe

People fish because they are searching for something. Often it is not for a fish. ~ Fennel Hudson

The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism. ~ Laurie Nadel

Whoever decided that Indiana Jones should wear a felt hat and a leather jacket in the jungles should have been shot. ~ Harrison Ford

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.' ~ James Fenton

To quote or not to quote that is syntactically correct ~ Me

We entered an era of false alarms. ~ Sara Novic

The revoloution is just a T-shirt away. ~ Billy Bragg

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship. ~ Ihab Hassan

De mortuis nil nisi bonum (Speak naught but the good of the dead) ~ Latin Quote

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans. ~ Noam Chomsky

If you didn't fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up. ~ Laurie Nadel

My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization. ~ Laurie Nadel

If all it takes to motivate you is a quote then this quote has nothing to say – except to go soar with the freakin' eagles. ~ Ryan Lilly

Mass(age) is the message. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Beginnings are happy never-endings as long as you remember where you started from. ~ Steven Cuoco

The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul. ~ Anna White

The only sharks I'm afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos. ~ Laurie Nadel

What do I think was modernism's subject, then? What was it about? No doubt you can guess my starting point. It was about steam - in both the Malevich and the de Chirico a train still rushes across the landscape. It was about change and power and contingency, in other words, but also control, compression, and captivity - an absurd or oppressive orderliness is haunting the bright new fields and the sunlit squares with their eternally flapping flags. Modernism presents us with a world becoming a realm of appearances - fragments, patchwork quilts of color, dream-tableaux made out of disconnected phantasms. But all of this is still happening in modernism, and still resisted as it is described. The two paintings remain shot through, it seems to me, with the effort to answer back to the flattening and derealizing-the will to put the fragments back into some sort of order. Modernism is agonized, but its agony is not separable from weird levity or whimsy. Pleasure and horror go together in it. Malevich may be desperate, or euphoric. He may be pouring scorn on the idea of collective man, or spelling the idea out with utter childish optimism. We shall never know his real opinions. His picture entertains both.

Modernism was certainly about the pathos of dream and desire in twentieth- century circumstances, but, again, the desires were unstoppable, ineradicable. The upright man will not let go of the future. The infinite still exists at the top of the tower. Even in the Picasso ~ T.J. Clark

Note that scholars are judged mostly on how many times their work is referenced in other people's work and thus cliques are formed of people who quote one another. It's an "I quote you, you quote me" type of business. ~ Nicholas Nassim Taleb

If you are in hard times, ask yourself: "What would this problem and my life mean to people two hundred years from now? ~ Catherine B. Roy