"Modernism represents a true kind of living. Modernism is not about form or method or the works of a few artists, but rather about a necessary way of living. And only this kind of lifestyle can save China, because if we don’t have modernism, then we will die under the grasp of one or another ideology. Modernism at least says that every person is free and needs to honestly encounter his own life."
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Tinari, Philip. “A Kind of True Living.” Artforum, Summer 2007, 453–459Ai Weiwei
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.
Roger Scruton
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
Clement Greenberg
Who knows what the new century holds for music? I predict that we will bury most of the musical modernism of the 20th, with its need to shock and cause distress.
Donald Vroon
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
Roger Scruton
So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Weiwei, Ai
Weldon, Fay
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