126 Quotes About Modernism

In reality, the apparent 'objectivity' of modern architecture is merely a mysticism in reverse, a congealed sentimentality disguised as objectivity; moreover one has seen often enough just how quickly this attitude is converted, in its protagonists, into the most changeable and arbitrary of subjectivisms.

Modernism has been consumed and remains partially digested in the belly of capital, awaiting occasional bouts of flatulence.

Bizim için muasırlaşmak demek, Avrupalılar gibi otomobiller, tayyareler yapıp kullanabilmek demektir, muasırlaşmak şekilce ve maişetçe Avrupalılara benzemek değildir.

Knowing that you betrayed me, I know you will betray me, but I don't love you with the kind of love that can be betrayed

Yes, each religion has to provide instructions for its followers as to how to live in our present- day world. But to take this change itself as the ‘‘principle’’ which should drive us on, as if we were picked up like a horse and driven against our will, that is not only against religion, but also against everything for which the Western ideas of liberty and freedom have stood.

Bergson considered poetry to be born of intuition, and words that were “at first, only signals” are thus converted into instruments of art. Russian modernists treat words in much the same way

Bergson's emphasis on the importance of art for the clear seeing of reality paralleled the modernist call for new modes of artistic perception and expression

Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition arises. The wild battle for success becomes more and more material. Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won. The public, left far behind, looks on bewildered, loses interest and turns away.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy,Something's missing!