I was lucky. From the time I was a little, I was always surrounded by women, and I am very attracted to… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
“For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
There's definitely a romanticism of youth, like, everywhere. Specifically with women, they kind of only exist between the age of 15 to 25. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
“If vampires were so passionate and depicted as sexy beasts because they fed on life force, why were zombies not depicted as… — Mur Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his… — Charles Yost Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“That which elevates the Christian to an essential superiority over the non-Christian is therefore not a higher level of morality as such.… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“It is the right of art to consider an impression valid simply as an impression and to accept it as something entire… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Romantic enthusiasm lifts the good aloft and removes it into the dim distance of the incomparable and unattainable; at the same time… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
“I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.” — Pessoa Fernando Copy Share Image
“The state is the coarse husk around the seed of life, and nothing more. It is the wall around the garden of… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image
There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue. — John McCain Copy Share Image
“But nature will smile though priests may frown, and next day the sun shone brightly, and on the next, and the next… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an… — Max Gallo Copy Share Image
“Our bonfire burns brightly, alighting our hot harvest. Scarce seeds of winter's heat, as its first dawn inflames. Sprouting into a plant… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“What we see in Penny’s writings then is what Paul de Man calls the rhetoric of Romanticism. An attempt to neutralise all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image