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 Copy Share Image
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find… — Jerry Lee Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not a designer who is very interested in baroque or in fantasy or in the fantastic side of fashion. This exists… — Christophe Lemaire Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women --… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“Much of the music of the north European Baroque is familiar to organists, but it is often played and registered in a… — Barbara Owen Copy Share Image
“The word “baroque” originating as a Portuguese term for the peculiar beauty of a deformed, uneven pearl, suggests a range of artistic… — John E. Wills Jr Copy Share Image
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music -… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and… — Rachel Zoe Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying… — Barbara Steele Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
