My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in…

“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

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

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

— Frank Wedekind

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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'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

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

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

— Beauty And The Beast