Classicism Quote by Amélie Nothomb

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they…

— Christina Stead

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

— Jonathan Miller

I like classicism. I like historic reference. I like something new with something almost ancient.

— Rick Owens

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

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

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

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