I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense of irreverence.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense of irreverence.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.