
Top 21 Quotes About Postmodernism Art
#1. So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#2. Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
John Walford
#3. You could never 'toss' your emotional baggage. You could only store it in an overhead compartment that might burst open at any given moment.
S.A. Lusher
#4. Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.
Mary Balogh
#5. A wise man once asked to his mentor, "What advice would you give the average investor?" his reply was, "DON'T BE AVERAGE.
Celeste Young
#6. Explorations of the world are simultaneously explorations of the human body and being, charting the range of sensory experiences possible in the world and the values that can be attached to such experiences
Chris Gosden
#8. Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.
Arnold Aronson
#9. Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
Michael Apted
#10. There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
Henri Poincare
#11. Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
Sarah Palin
#12. My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
Adrienne Rich
#13. Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
Andrew Eldritch
#14. He was still a douchecanoe. The douchecanoe who was going to paddle me to safety.
Karina Halle
#15. It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood.
Steve Carell
#16. The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One legacy is ugly, baffling, and insulting art. The other is pretentious and unintelligible scholarship. And they're surprised that people are staying away in droves?
Steven Pinker
#17. Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
Walter Darby Bannard
#18. She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur.
Stephen King
#19. In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.
Theodor W. Adorno
#20. The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.
Joss Whedon
#21. Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
Walter Darby Bannard
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