#modernist

Like the Hindu in Belfast who was asked whether he was a Catholic Hindu or a Protestant Hindu, those of us who follow this fresh reading of the New Testament want to say to our critics right and left, ‘Don’t imagine that because we don’t check all your fundamentalist boxes, we must be modernists, or that because we don’t check all your modernist boxes, we must be fundamentalists. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#modernists #new-testament #sbl #imagination

You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#kora-in-hell #modernist-poets #red-wheel-barrow #this-is-just-to-say #life

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 for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. ↗

— Vera Wang

#break #came #even #give #go

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. ↗

— John Corigliano

#destroy #everything #french #french revolution #modernist

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. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#any #architects #architecture #called #could

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#call #different #different language #every #great

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? ↗

— Kathy Acker

#differences #i #modernist #question #really

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. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#between #cannot #exist #fully #i

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 and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#classical #coherent #ending #enough #feel

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#fifties #i #i love #influenced #jazz