Baroque Quotes

48 quotes by 46 authors

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the… — Mario Batali
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out… — Geraldine Brooks
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving… — Carlo Petrini
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts… — Immanuel Kant
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered… — Oscar Niemeyer
I was attracted by the curve â€” the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old… — Oscar Niemeyer
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak… — Harry Seidler
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that… — Emanuel Lasker
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. — Joan Armatrading
I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque… — Jorge Luis Borges
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up… — Philip Hensher
I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre. — Joyce DiDonato
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be… — Oswald Spengler
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the… — Cecilia Bartoli
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products… — Juan Goytisolo
I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. Thereâ€™s a particular style that is… — Mario Testino
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek
Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and donâ€™t if you donâ€™t want to be. Just be… — Constance Spry
The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has becomeâ€”or else scrap it and get ready to start all over. — Christopher Flavin

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