Modern and Modernism Quotes

14 quotations about Modern and Modernism
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Bryan Appleyard · Modern and Modernism
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Matthew Arnold · Modern and Modernism
You are born modern, you do not become so.
Jean Baudrillard · Modern and Modernism
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Angela Carter · Modern and Modernism
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
Terry Eagleton · Modern and Modernism
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg · Modern and Modernism
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison · Modern and Modernism
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Eric Hoffer · Modern and Modernism
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Peggy Noonan · Modern and Modernism
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
Peter Reading · Modern and Modernism
For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
William Shakespeare · Modern and Modernism
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
George Steiner · Modern and Modernism
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens · Modern and Modernism
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde · Modern and Modernism

Authors on Modern and Modernism

Bryan Appleyard Matthew Arnold Jean Baudrillard Angela Carter Terry Eagleton Edgar Z. Friedenberg Robert Hewison Eric Hoffer Peggy Noonan Peter Reading William Shakespeare George Steiner Wallace Stevens Oscar Wilde