Classicism never commits any errors of taste.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they…

— Christina Stead

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

— Jonathan Miller

I like classicism. I like historic reference. I like something new with something almost ancient.

— Rick Owens

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

— Michael Haneke

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order,…

— Camille Paglia

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse…

— Robert Gottlieb

“This is something of a paradox in that the transgression—crime perhaps—of America has been to reject Classicism for Romanticism. The national distaste for moderation—to…

— Anthony Powell

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never…

— H. P. Lovecraft

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any…

— James Joyce

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

— Edward Abbey

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her…

— Whit Stillman

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for…

— Thorstein Veblen

The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let…

— Margaret Atwood

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good.…

— Leon Krier

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I…

— Maurice de Vlaminck