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Modernism Quotes

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art Picture Quote #1

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself Picture Quote #1

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success Picture Quote #1

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion Picture Quote #1

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists Picture Quote #1

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on Picture Quote #1

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If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans Picture Quote #1

What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety Picture Quote #1

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism Picture Quote #1

My definition of modernism took a while to develop Picture Quote #1

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly Picture Quote #1

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism Picture Quote #1

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Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before Picture Quote #1

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom Picture Quote #1

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape Picture Quote #1

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism Picture Quote #1

People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn’t rhyme, it doesn’t touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject’s unabashed difficulty Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There’s the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it’s had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism Picture Quote #1

The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it’s called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Who knows what the new century holds for music? I predict that we will bury most of the musical modernism of the 20th, with its need to shock and cause distress Picture Quote #1

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art (Modernism Quotes) Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself (Modernism Quotes) Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success (Modernism Quotes) Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion (Modernism Quotes) Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists (Modernism Quotes) Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on (Modernism Quotes) If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans (Modernism Quotes) What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety (Modernism Quotes) What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism (Modernism Quotes) My definition of modernism took a while to develop (Modernism Quotes) Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly (Modernism Quotes) French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism (Modernism Quotes) Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before (Modernism Quotes) Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom (Modernism Quotes) The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape (Modernism Quotes) There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism (Modernism Quotes) People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn’t rhyme, it doesn’t touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school (Modernism Quotes) 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. (Modernism Quotes) I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines. (Modernism Quotes) 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. (Modernism Quotes) As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject’s unabashed difficulty. (Modernism Quotes) 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. (Modernism Quotes) There’s the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it’s had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. (Modernism Quotes) The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it’s called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past. (Modernism Quotes) 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. (Modernism Quotes) Who knows what the new century holds for music? I predict that we will bury most of the musical modernism of the 20th, with its need to shock and cause distress (Modernism Quotes) The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition (Modernism Quotes) 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 (Modernism Quotes) Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths (Modernism Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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