Postmodern Quotes - Page 3

• I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

  Noah Baumbach

  Art, Ideas, Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Art, Practice

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• I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid. I think you see that nowadays, in this postmodern context, there's much more use of different mediums in contemporary art. For me, if you're a creative person, you can choose to make a painting, you can choose to make a film.

  Lily Cole

  Art, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.

  Dave Eggers

  Reading, Thinking, Bored

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Monk, Thinker

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• The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Self, Feminist, Kind

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• Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Artist, Dubious

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• I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

  Kate Atkinson

  Years, Literature, Four

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• Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.

  Patrice Pavis

  Memories, Theatre, Heritage

  Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.47, Routledge

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• Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying the postmodern character of our society. He addresses the possibilities of genetics at times, or Islamism, and infuses all of it with a certain amount of absurdity. I get a very strong sense of that in "Submission." The way he toys with the absurd makes him an author sui generis, one who stands out from the others.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Strong, Character, Succeed

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• I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

  James McGreevey

  Change, Christian, Passion

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• One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

  Martin Filler

  People, Goal, Use

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• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

  Twyla Tharp

  Stupid, Silly, Mean

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• I have a huge respect for the dedication that many people have, on the other side of the Atlantic, to photography. You can count them on one hand here. There's less respect for a Magnum photographer in Britain than there is in America. It's a much more postmodern culture here.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, Dedication, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.

  Roger Ebert

  Cheer, Book, Lists

  Roger Ebert (2006). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.714, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason — instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.

  David Simon

  Selfish, Oedipus, People

  "Stealing Life" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2007.

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• Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.

  Jonathan Raban

  Night, Thinking, Style

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• The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism in the modern world. Now the church must engage with the emergence of a postmodern, post- Christian, neo-pagan world.

  Robert E. Webber

  Christian, Church, Ancient World

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• There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

  Vaclav Havel

  Understanding, Experts, World

  Vaclav Havel's Liberty Medal acceptance speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.aps.org. October 4, 1994.

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• Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.

  David Elkind

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

  David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.

  Philip Auslander

  Theatre, Resistance, Authority

  Philip Auslander (2002). “From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism”, p.63, Routledge

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• There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel—it’s that postmodern thing—it’s more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being’s experience.

  Andre Dubus

  Beautiful, Book, Fall

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• I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

  Richard Marshall

  Ideas, Philosopher, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Spiritual, Artist, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Country, Trying, Use

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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