Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

- Arthur Erickson

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

- Christian Lacroix

'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.

- John Tavener

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

- John Crowe Ransom

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

- Miguel Syjuco

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

- Paul Rand

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

- Peter Gay

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

- Peter Gay

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

- Robert Hewison

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

- Skeet Ulrich

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