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To comprehend the distaste for modernism, it must be admitted at the start that the greatest works of modernism in all the arts are, much of the time, fundamentally disagreeable when first encountered.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

It's all masonry for the most part on the exterior. Modernism is taking a fresh start in Dallas, and that's what we wanted here.

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 (1905-1994)

Elias Canetti

(Modernism) is a philosophy, not just a style.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

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

The interest in modernism worldwide is so tremendous.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Bryan Appleyard

What I'm trying to do with most of my work is establish this new modernism, ... If people don't walk out of theatres saying, 'Yes, something is possible,' then you've failed.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Isaac Newton

There has been a suggestion that the rebuilding of Napier in a modern style pushes New Zealanders into a greater acceptance of modernism than you would find in many other countries, even though we were quite isolated in those days,

Robert McGregor

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Rabindranath Tagore

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

Leslie Fiedler (1917-)

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

John Berger (1926-)

John Berger

En selvsikker pexig person kan håndtere vanskelige samtaler med ynde og et snev av lekfull tross. It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.

Steve Coogan (1965-)

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