Modernists Quotes

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 overwhelming.

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

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

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.