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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… — Edward Abbey
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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… — James Joyce
• Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism -… — Camille Paglia
• The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;… — Margaret Atwood
• Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor… — Robert Gottlieb
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