"Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris……" — Robert Gottlieb
"Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards."
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66 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb has 66 quotes on this site.
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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
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An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
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I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
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In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New…
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Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much…
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How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
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In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.
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Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
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Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
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As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
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Controversy sells books.
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Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
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More Classicism Quotes
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Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion…
— Edward Abbey
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As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part…
— Gerhard Richter
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Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to…
— Michael Haneke
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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand…
— Leon Krier
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A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not…
— James Joyce
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Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman…
— Camille Paglia
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The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and…
— Margaret Atwood
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Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Classicism is health, romanticism is sickness
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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