“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!” — Joseph Conrad 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
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. — Anonymous 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
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
“...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.” — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton 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
“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
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
Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open -… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and… — Bjarke Ingels 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
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 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
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
