Age Quote by James Joyce

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

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

— Robin G. Collingwood

The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the…

— Herbert Read

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

— John Boyne

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which…

— David Finckel

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal…

— Ezra Pound

People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.

— Hubert de Givenchy

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for…

— Thorstein Veblen

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

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never…

— Edith Wharton

There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they…

— Jay Kay

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad…

— Meyer Schapiro