Baroque Quotes & Sayings
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The greatest architectural illusion is not
Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. —
Kevin McCloud

History and beauty lie in the
baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word. —
Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

Prose is architecture and the
Baroque age is over. —
Ernest Hemingway,

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. —
John Berger

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly
baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. —
Arundhati Roy

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. —
Samuel Johnson

Personality is a piece of paper that folds in to conceal different sides and display others, like an Origami —
Alejandro Colliard

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative. —
John Warnock

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

In the 16th century,parks and gardens were models of the cosmos and also tools for altering one's consciousness, possibly for changing one's destiny. —
Linda Lappin

The challenge now is to renovate the
baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become - or else scrap it and get ready to start all over. —
Christopher Flavin

I think I've learned more about
Baroque music than any other genre. —
Joyce DiDonato

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

I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series. —
Victoria Pratt

The statues carved here may be viewed as fragments of consciousness itself, or the residue of violent emotions —
Linda Lappin

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit
baroque palaces. —
Rufus Wainwright

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. —
Georg C. Lichtenberg

I don't like singing before noon. —
Sting

My thesis statement would be - Bach didn't write
Baroque music. He wrote great music. —
Chris Thile

My look is either very
baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. —
Iris Apfel

There is such a thin veil between love and hate. —
Mia Sheridan

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo,
Baroque. —
Frank Wedekind

If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile. —
Nhat Hanh

The sky is a tight gray sheet of
Baroque prose pulled snug —
Brandi L. Bates