Balance and harmony Quote by John E. Wills Jr

I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The…

— Jorge Luis Borges

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it…

— Win Butler

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined…

— Juan Goytisolo

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

— Ernest Hemingway

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural…

— Harry Seidler

In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and…

— Camille Henrot

I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.

— Peter Marino

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way,…

— Jerry Saltz

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

— Renee Fleming

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

— Clement Greenberg

“I call it our English Renaissance because it is indeed a sort of new birth of the spirit of man, like the great Italian…

— Oscar Wilde

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

— Camille Henrot