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 architects to have these grand visions any more.
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be over...
Bathrooms that traded mirrors for glass walls invited prurience on occasion, but they also drew the inhabitant's gaze away from himself toward an increasingly threatened nature.
(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22
We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef
In its confounding of the logic that maintains terms like high and low, or base and sacred as polar opposites, it is this play of the contradictory that allows one to think the truth that Bataille never tired of demonstrating: that violence has histo...
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 feel fresh.
The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
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 you to be more artistic, not less!
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
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 to reconcile the two.
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 of Oz.'
