“Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.”— Alvar Aalto
“Any musician who has not experienced, at least once, the necessity of dodecaphonic language is USELESS.”— Pierre Boulez
“The first and most important thing to be said about contemporary music in America is that the word 'contemporary' has no meaning.”— Milton Babbitt
“Modern architects are so pre-occupied with the task of inventing new forms that they have forgotten that the deepest source of architectural form is the landscape.”— Arthur Erickson
“My music is not 'modern' in the sense of being 'new'. It is a continuation of the great tradition of Western art music.”— György Ligeti
“I was the first to see that the art of the past hundred years was a source to be used like any other.”— Larry Rivers
“I do not believe that there is a 'modern art' - there is only one art and that is art.”— Egon Schiele