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For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.
— Lance Olsen
The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
— Thomas Kinkade
There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.
— Elvis Presley
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
— G.K. Chesterton
Love has no monetary value, but life has no value without love.
— Debasish Mridha
I'm now a man on a mission. It's time to engage in some reckless, inappropriate behavior with a hot slut.
— Kendall Grey
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
— Richard Grossman
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
— Angela Carter
The modernist preference for high seriousness is replaced by the postmodernist preference for playfulness.
— Dharanidhar Sahu
It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.
— Stephen Harper
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.
— Frank Gehry
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.
— Kay WalkingStick
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
— John Corigliano
In one sense, (Duchamp's) "The Large Glass" is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.
— Robert Hughes
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
— Stephan Pastis
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification
— Roger Scruton
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.
— Kelly Wearstler
Run was a song about grasping for happiness just out of reach, about endless, temporary good-byes. A song only a ghost should sing.
— Jeri Smith-Ready
As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, "Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art." In
— David Bayles
One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.
— E. M. Forster
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!
— Joseph Conrad
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
— Mason Cooley
In the modernist era the division between art and the world was close to absolute, or put another way, art was a world of its own.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.
— Winifred Gallagher
All those layers of silence upon silence.
— Donna Tartt
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
— Nathan Myhrvold
Fitzgerald was a modernist.
— Baz Luhrmann
The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.
— Philip Kaufman
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
— Charles Churchill
I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
— Ronald Perelman
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.
— Louis Menand
There comes a time in every endeavor when one must take fate by the lapels and explain the need for urgency.
— Karen Hawkins
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
— Kathy Acker