The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist? — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially… — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious… — David Farr Copy Share Image
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
There was, when I came to New York in the 1970s, no more profound or moving experience than MoMA, an almost perfect… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?”… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Modernist literature with all its vast apparatus was an instrument, a form of perception, and once absorbed, the insights it brought could… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was then that Brown took his revenge upon the world which, after twenty years of contemptuous and reckless bullying, refused him… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.” — Lance Olsen Copy Share Image
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
“...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.” — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
“It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
