Classicism Quote by Anonymous

Classicism is health, romanticism is sickness

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows…

— Ned Rorem

“The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for life’s preservation…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

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

“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.”

— Ludwig von Mises

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

— Alfred de Musset

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

— Mason Cooley

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's…

— Elizabeth Peyton

The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others (the competitive…

— Frederick C. Beiser