Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

“In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel, but what…

— Luis de Góngora

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined…

— Juan Goytisolo

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 to do…

— Philippe Garrel

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think…

— J. M. Ledgard

I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian…

— Elie Wiesel

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in…

— Mario Batali

I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series,…

— Neal Stephenson

What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where…

— William Irwin Thompson

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell…

— Geraldine Brooks

I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval,…

— Anton Yelchin

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and…

— Zadie Smith

If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more…

— David Russell

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

— Frank Wedekind

When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I like fresco,…

— Camille Henrot

If it's not baroque, don't fix it! -Cogsworth the Clock

— Beauty And The Beast