Modernist Quotes

I agree with Walter Murch`s theory that digital will never have the emotional or visual power of regular film, because audiences respond to absences. Regular film has a split second of blank screen between each shot, which the audience`s brain has to automatically fill in. Digital doesn`t have that, so it doesn`t engage the audience in the same ways. In all modernist literature, the most present thing is what`s absent. Like the opening of The Sound and the Fury, where they`re looking between the fence. Or in Closer the most important parts, the relationships, are missing and have to be filled in by the audience. Absences are crucial.

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.

Frary executed tremendous abstract paintings. Frary contributed significantly to mid-century modernist art in Texas.