Paul Rand

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.

American Designer

James Fenton

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.

British Poet

Will Self

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

English Author

Ali Smith

People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.

Scottish Writer

Skeet Ulrich

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

American Actor

Margaret MacMillan

Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.

Canadian Historian

Ma Yansong

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

Chinese Architect

Peter Gay

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

American Historian

Christian Lacroix

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

French Designer

Daniel Barenboim

When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.

Argentinian Musician

Modernism represents a break from historical styles, focusing on new and experimental techniques.

Historical Break

Typically, modernism reflects cultural shifts and the questioning of traditional values.

Cultural Shifts

Artworks labeled as modernism might appear unconventional with abstract or fragmented forms.

Unique Forms

Modernism in any field often sparks significant change, influencing future developments.

Change Catalyst

Modernism puts a strong emphasis on innovation and new methods over traditional ones.

Innovation Emphasis

In technology, modernism often implies a futuristic and forward-thinking approach.

Futuristic Approach

 And you know some of them would probably be terrible chairs. Some of them are kind of cool looking. It's like "Hey, why didn't they try that?" It was that hands-on iterative process which is so much like vernacular design and folk design in traditional cultures. And I think that's one of the commonalities between modernism

The design genius of...

 and maybe it's self-explanatory, but a city that hasn't been taken over by modernism, that's preserved its kind of architecture and character, and where the bicycle plays an important part of the way in which people get around and where pedestrian rights are protected. And I write a newsletter that goes out every week,

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 and the phonograph. Within that divide, through the creation of his most important contribution to poetry, the calligram, Guillaume Apollinaire built a bridge. Apollinaire created the calligram as a poem picture, a written portrait, a thoughts drawing, and he used it to express his modernism

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 every thing that I read is filled with the thing I love. Now, once you understand the history and what happens with typography, you actually have a history of everything before you. And this is the typeface Futura. As previously we've discussed, this is modernism in miniature.

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 and said that it's real important along the edges to always have the clean edges. He said to kind of go like that. It's a very small difference but if you look, it sort of makes it a little cleaner along the edges. I think that's sort of the modernism eye

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 is one of the things that makes it so difficult, but it also helps make it enjoyable. And it's one of the reasons that the book is held up as one of the key texts of literary modernism, a movement characterized by overturning traditional modes of writing.

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 in the 15th century; here is a representative example of the depiction of the female form in the 20th century. And, as you can see, there -- something has changed in the way the elite arts appeal to the senses. Indeed, in movements of modernism

Steven Pinker: Human...

 scholars and scientists in co-authoring an eco modernist manifesto it lays out a new vision of how to protect the environment while ensuring people across the planet can live fulfilling lives Eco modernism is optimistic about

An eco-modernist...

 That trend is generally called Islamic modernism, and it was advanced by intellectuals and statesmen, not just as an intellectual idea, though, but also as a political program. And that's why, actually, in the 19th century,

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 towards modernism in the 20th century. Isn't it remarkable that, after thousands of years of people doing mostly representational art, that modern art, comparatively speaking, is about 15 minutes old, yet now pervasive.