Authenticity Quote by Chris Hedges

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“The essence of romance is an extremely powerful life-giving sensual force for change. I view the romantic periods in our history as cycles of…

— Ayesha Ophelia

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

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

— Ludwig von Mises

“The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.”

— Alan Cohen

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

— Charles Peguy

“Once you stand in your own authenticity, you release the flow of sensuality that frees you to be who you were meant to be.”

— Lebo Grand

“its romantic embellishments – a”

— Penny Vincenzi

By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own…

— Dan Cruickshank

“Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious,…

— Salman Rushdie