Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music. — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details,… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler,… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got so many different imprints. When you… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I'm not able to completely escape naturalism. It's very difficult to escape from naturalism without being too dry. That's what I try… — Philippe Garrel Copy Share Image
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist. — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to the music we grew up with. Beatles, Motown, all the middle baroque period stuff. I miss those days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
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