Baroque Quotes

I like baroque things.

— Weyes Blood

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

— Denis Norden

“[H]istory is baroque.”

— Ariel Durant

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

— Umberto Eco

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

— Camille Henrot

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

— Joyce DiDonato

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

— Chris Thile

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

— Joyce DiDonato

I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.

— Peter Marino

“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Joan Armatrading

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

— Frank Wedekind

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler,…

— Renee Fleming

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to…

— Christopher Flavin

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

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

— Kevin McCloud

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 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

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

— Mark Coleman

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

— Victoria de los Angeles

The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums,…

— Ray Bradbury

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that…

— Ernest Hemingway

The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer…

— Charles Hazlewood

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as…

— Robert Wilson

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

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery…

— Camille Henrot

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

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

— Florence Welch

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase…

— Alain de Botton

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

— William Irwin Thompson

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and…

— Oscar Niemeyer

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…

— Philippe Garrel

Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and don’t if you don’t want to…

— Constance Spry

One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of…

— Mark Haddon

In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in…

— Jean Baudrillard

Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe…

— Eugene Green

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

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

— Yngwie Malmsteen