Quotes Tagged With :modernism

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence,....

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition,....

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is....

It's ugly, but is it art?

The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave,....

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting,....

But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad....

Novels by serious writers of genius often eventually become best-sellers, but most contemporary best-sellers....

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value,....

The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases....