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By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

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In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit — if totally different in form — from all the romantic architecture of the past. – Dan Cruickshank

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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. – Bryan Appleyard

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. – Alexander Herzen

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – Angela Carter

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