It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly…

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

— Mason Cooley

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

— Kathy Acker

France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.

— John Lanchester

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative…

— Rob Chapman

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The…

— Ali Smith

But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers'…

— Thomas Keneally

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to…

— Ellen Willis

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a romantic one;…

— Alain de Botton

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?

— Will Self

“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!”

— Joseph Conrad

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

— Nathan Myhrvold

I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of…

— David Farr

I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against…

— Robert Stone

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

— Robert Hughes