Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

— Catherine Deneuve

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

— Gustav Holst

“Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of…

— E.R. Braithwaite

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

— Austin O'Malley

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it…

— Rufus Wainwright

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

— Questlove

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any…

— James Joyce

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

— Johan Huizinga

“If we implement classical practices without the impetus of the classical ideals, we will never achieve those ideals. The”

— Karen Glass

“Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality”

— Jorge Luis Borges

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

— Aldous Huxley

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the…

— George Santayana