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.
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
You are born modern, you do not become so.
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.