I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The state is the coarse husk around the seed of life, and nothing more. It is the wall around the garden of… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image
“The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.” — Pessoa Fernando Copy Share Image
There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue. — John McCain Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“But nature will smile though priests may frown, and next day the sun shone brightly, and on the next, and the next… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an… — Max Gallo Copy Share Image
“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“That which elevates the Christian to an essential superiority over the non-Christian is therefore not a higher level of morality as such.… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“What we see in Penny’s writings then is what Paul de Man calls the rhetoric of Romanticism. An attempt to neutralise all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Truthfully some of my favorite music can only be heard outside through the natural melodies that live on the tongues of birds,… — Ayesha Ophelia Copy Share Image
“[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Hooper was no romantic. He had not as a child ridden with Rupert's horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side;… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Romantic enthusiasm lifts the good aloft and removes it into the dim distance of the incomparable and unattainable; at the same time… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Our bonfire burns brightly, alighting our hot harvest. Scarce seeds of winter's heat, as its first dawn inflames. Sprouting into a plant… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I loved the masculine style of dressing of Katharine Hepburn, who came from the same town that I came from. I was… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
“When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately,… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
There is much romanticism about Formula One of the past. Today it has to be more of a family sport, not less.… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Our modern interest and respect for culture begins at this point, when intellectuals first began collecting folk culture. The answer to the… — John Hirst Copy Share Image
“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
“The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Traffic slowed as they entered Fort Washakie with everyone rubbernecking the spirited powwow taking place in an empty field just off the… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“The gallery context of Scotch Myths puts the objects on display in an interrogatory framework in a way that their presence in… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image