Classicism is health, romanticism is sickness

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

— Anonymous

“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically…

— T. E. Hulme

“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man has seen the light, this is next best by far, that…

— Sophocles

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

At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort…

— Oswald Spengler

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

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

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

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

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