126 Quotes About Modernism

It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.

There seemed to be as much written about the art, and what the dialogue meant, as the paintings themselves. Clement Greenburg had been the first of many. It drove her crazy, the convoluted doubletalk of artist and medium and historian. Though she loved the process of creation and the images themselves, she found it difficult to put her thoughts into words.

Is there a Swedish Modernism?

So I call on truth itself,for it is knownand yet does not write;

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

It is from the ranks of the neo-intellectuals that we develop our parlor socialists, our “modernists” in poetry and letters, and those arm-chair anarchists who have theoretical explanations for every circumstance of living. The Mercurial person must take careful stock of himself and make sure that he contributes nothing to the inanities of the day.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

That's why moderns have to have hobbies. They can't find satisfaction in their money-earning work, so many seek creative satisfaction in model planes and trains.