Modernist Quotes

38 quotes by 33 authors

I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours… — Lucian Freud
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable.… — William Lane Craig
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which… — Clement Greenberg
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed wasâ€”perhaps rightlyâ€”scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work… — Thomas Keneally
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist Â«chaosÂ» of… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture… — Tadao Ando
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… — David Brin
An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem… — Istvan Deak
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification — Roger Scruton
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt,… — John Yau
Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are routinely labelled with… — Richard Dawkins
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today… — Murray Bookchin
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter
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 today nobody expects… — Thom Mayne
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 Wizard… — Ali Smith
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. — John Corigliano

Who Wrote These Modernist Quotes

33 authors contributed a total of 38 Modernist Quotes, led by these top contributors: