Baroque Quotes

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

Interior, Decoration, Prose

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, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
Jerry Saltz

Art, Put, Against

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
Mario Batali

Food, Hate, Done

My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.
Florence Welch

Passion, Find, Old

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

Used, Singing, Style

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
Geraldine Brooks

Faith, Family, Women

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
Cecilia Bartoli

Love, Music, Greatest

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.
Donna Leon

Music, Real, Passion

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
Victoria de los Angeles

Unless, Ancient, German

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
Juan Goytisolo

Artist, Literary, Styles

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
Joan Armatrading

Music, Romantic, Classical

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
Pierre Schaeffer

Music, Western, Sublime

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
Harry Seidler

Around, View, Century

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
Jan Garbarek

Music, Jazz, Classical

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