Achieve Quote by Roger Scruton

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in…

— Stefan Sagmeister

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always…

— Leon Krier

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

— Robert Henri

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

— Syd Barrett

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use…

— Tadao Ando

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

— Roger Scruton

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