Best Modernist Quotes

38 Modernist quotes by 33 unique authors

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows… — Nathan Myhrvold
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past… — Vera Wang
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used… — Gary Shteyngart
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping… — Bjarke Ingels
The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist. — Thomas Kinkade
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism… — Martin Filler
Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work… — Kelly Wearstler
Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But… — Jose Andres Puerta
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn… — Ellen Willis
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? — Kathy Acker
Fitzgerald was a modernist. — Baz Luhrmann

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