Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Mass(age) is the message.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
DAVID GUTERSON It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.
STEVE COOGAN Our material prosperity has lead many to walk away from God, hate God, mock God, and deny God's very...
JUSTIN STECKBAUER Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a ...
LARRY WALL Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was ...
MIGUEL SYJUCO Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the...
DAVID F. WELLS I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that...
UMBERTO ECO Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men’s Room, does Sternberg, and strug...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.
NOAM CHOMSKY The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it r...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?
FRANZ KAFKA A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.
SAIRA VIOLA The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial o...
STEVEN PINKER The assumption that D...
TIMOTHY MORTON The old slogan 'truth is stranger than fiction,' that still corresponded to the surrealist phase of ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not on...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
JONATHAN LETHEM One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different ...
LARRY WALL Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social ...
T.J. CLARK That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn lo...
DAVID OHLE I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to t...
W.B. YEATS The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated
faces, this way and that way, drugs me...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The revolution is just a T-shirt away.
- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
BILLY BRAGG He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying a...
STEPHEN KING French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
CHRISTIAN LACROIX My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
PETER GAY The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher PHILIP K. DICK The man of the future will be young or he will not be.
RéGIS DEBRAY When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off ...
JOHN BERGER Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designe...
EVA ZEISEL To comprehend the distaste for modernism, it must be admitted at the start that the greatest works o...
CHARLES ROSEN What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
PETER GAY Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty importe...
JAMES FENTON Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense ...
ARTHUR ERICKSON The post-modernists claim everything is relative. Nothing can be known for certain. The ultimate rel...
JUSTIN STECKBAUER You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to ...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ It's ugly, but is it art?
RANDALL JARRELL In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has som...
WILLIAM E. HORDERN Every period had its style: why was it that our period was the only one to be denied a style? By “...
ADOLF LOOS The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustratin...
JACKSON POLLOCK But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
STEPHEN KING In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage t...
G.K. CHESTERTON Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
ARTHUR ERICKSON What I'm trying to do with most of my work is establish this new modernism, ... If people don't walk...
ISAAC NEWTON Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
BRYAN APPLEYARD If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superst...
C.S. LEWIS We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ...
SARAH VOWELL Architecture has died and been replaced by air conditioning.
REM KOOLHAAS The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understoo...
SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, paint...
PETER WATSON The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivate...
ADOLF LOOS I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I h...
MARCEL PROUST The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People ensl...
STEVEN PINKER The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
G.K. CHESTERTON Do you want to know why I don't like the so-called connoisseurs of arts? I hate hypocrisy. I'll give...
ILZE FALB Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, a...
PHILLIP E. JOHNSON Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity...
PAUL RAND Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
ROGER ZELAZNY In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll fi...
MEGHNA PANT It's all masonry for the most part on the exterior. Modernism is taking a fresh start in Dallas, and...
DAVID FARRELL Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium ...
ORSON WELLES Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interest...
JOHN LEONARD It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of m...
SVERKER SöRLIN Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which su...
JENNIFER EGAN The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the...
MILAN KUNDERA A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The ...
ELIAS CANETTI A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. Th...
ELIAS CANETTI A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modern...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modern...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch betw...
TADAO ANDO He has taken the news with moderate optimism,
BALTASAR GARZON The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of mod...
MARTIN FILLER I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of ...
PAUL RAND A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it ...
ELIAS CANETTI As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating t...
WILL SELF Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition o...
MICHEL DE CERTEAU In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell ...
ROBERT HUGHES For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition....
SAUL BELLOW True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, n...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE 'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes yo...
JOHN TAVENER There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time...
TWYLA THARP The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to w...
WILL SELF Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later...
MARTIN FILLER Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary proces...
PETER SLIPPER From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted ...
MARTIN FILLER This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power...
GRANT H. KESTER If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
JOHN CAGE Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight th...
ERIC KANDEL Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. ...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you d...
BRAD HOLLAND By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change...
DAN CRUICKSHANK I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophisi...
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ROBERT FULGHUM 'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.
ROBERT FULGHUM If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem...
ROBERT FULGHUM Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more w...
ROBERT FULGHUM My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the la...
ROBERT FULGHUM I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and t...
ROBERT FULGHUM Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
ROBERT FULGHUM All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.
ROBERT FULGHUM The examined life is no picnic.
ROBERT FULGHUM Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
ROBERT FULGHUM Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible co...
ROBERT FULGHUM If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'Th...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI