Top Modernism Quotes
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
Phillip E. Johnson
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
John C. Ransom
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur Erickson
All Modernism Quotes
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
Phillip E. Johnson 
53% of people like this quote
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
52% of people like this quote
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
John C. Ransom 
50% of people like this quote
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison 
50% of people like this quote
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur Erickson 
49% of people like this quote
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Christian Lacroix 
47% of people like this quote
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
Arthur Erickson 
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