Quotes of Modernist - somelinesforyou

“ I think the adjective "post-modernist" really means "mannerist." Books about books is fun but frivolous. ”

- Angela Carter

“ Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand… ”

- Robert Menzies

“ I've tried to understand Mr. Havel as much as I could. I think his feeling was that science was the ultimate expression of a neo-modernist philosophy and that it is inherently bad because it fails to consider human emotions and needs. ”

- George E. Brown Jr.
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