Classicism Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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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
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As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
— Gerhard Richter
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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
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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides,…
— Leon Krier
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A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed…
— James Joyce
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Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion,…
— Camille Paglia
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The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from…
— Robert Gottlieb
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Classicism is health, romanticism is sickness
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Who Wrote These Classicism Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Classicism Quotes as follows: