Baroque Quotes · Page 2

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

— Elie Wiesel

“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in…

— Asti Hustvedt

I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him…

— Mahan Esfahani

So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the…

— Neal Stephenson

Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with…

— Martin Filler

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

— Anton Yelchin

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist.…

— China Mieville

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

— Mario Batali

The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it…

— Andre Bazin

I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of…

— Neal Stephenson

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice…

— Jacqueline Carey

In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming…

— Camille Henrot

When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and…

— Mahan Esfahani

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

— J. M. Ledgard

If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.

— Denis Norden

I like baroque things.

— Weyes Blood

“To die with style, live in the Baroque.”

— Umberto Eco

“[H]istory is baroque.”

— Ariel Durant

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

— Joan Armatrading

I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

— Joyce DiDonato

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

— Camille Henrot

For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way.

— Alessandro Michele

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

— Ernest Hemingway

My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

— Iris Apfel

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

— Victoria de los Angeles

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

— Marisa Silver

“Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.”

— Robert Greenberg

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

— Rufus Wainwright

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

— Kevin McCloud

Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details,…

— Camille Henrot

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole…

— Daniel Suarez

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as…

— Carlo Petrini

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you…

— Win Butler

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing…

— Antonia Thomas

I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular…

— Mario Testino

On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would…

— Brendon Urie

I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on…

— Jorge Luis Borges

My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the…

— Florence Welch

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also…

— Donna Leon