Alternatives Quote by Edward Abbey

The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let…

— Margaret Atwood

“This is something of a paradox in that the transgression—crime perhaps—of America has been to reject Classicism for Romanticism. The national distaste for moderation—to…

— Anthony Powell

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

— Joni Mitchell

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

— Glenn Danzig

“I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself…

— Edward Abbey

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I like classicism. I like historic reference. I like something new with something almost ancient.

— Rick Owens

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

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order,…

— Camille Paglia

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse…

— Robert Gottlieb

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her…

— Whit Stillman