Baroque Quotes

48 quotes by 46 authors

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can… — Ernest Hemingway
In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and… — Jean Baudrillard
My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist. — Joe Bastianich
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean,… — Jacqueline Carey
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to wholeâ€¦â€¦. â€¦skew… — Charles Jencks
But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you… — J. M. Ledgard
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style. — Renee Fleming
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that… — Jerry Saltz
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called… — Pierre Schaeffer
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. — Rufus Wainwright
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what… — Florence Welch
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements… — Rachel Zoe
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from… — Martin Filler
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. donâ€™t redeem what this particular civilization… — Susan Sontag
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. — Arundhati Roy
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque… — Roland Barthes
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon… — Ray Bradbury

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