Quotes About Classicism

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

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Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

This is something of a paradox in that the transgression—crime perhaps—of America has been to reject Classicism for Romanticism. The national distaste for moderation—to which Henry Adams referred—inevitably leads to such a choice.

Robert Adam was the great architect of the eighteenth century, Emma. He built many grand and beautiful

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

The Judas grace (composed, they say, by Christopher Whitrid himself) is noted for its length and for the excellence of its Latinity.

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.

I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something 'contemporary' or 'trendy,' because ballet doesn't progress on one track: it can branch out in many directions, and as Balanchine showed, there's always room for pure classicism and more subtle alterations of it.

U doba klasicizma, englesku setu rado objašnjavaju uticajem morskog podneblja: studen, vlaga, promenljivost vremena, sve one si?ušne vodene kapi što prodiru u pore i tkiva tela ?ove?jeg i ?ine da ono izgubi jedrinu, utiru put ludilu.

There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

?lham kaynaklar? Eski Yunan'?n iki remiz ismi: Dionizos-Apollon. Birincisi, romantizmin temsilcisi., hamle, macera, aray??, hürriyet. ?kincisi, klasisizmin.. sanat, tasannu, dam?tma ve süzme. Oysa kemal, ikisinin kayna?mas? de?il mi? Her büyük romantik, klasik olmak zorundad?r. Romantizmle kanatlanmayan klasisizm içi bo? bir mahfaza. Ölümsüz abideler çift mimar?n eseri: Dionizos-Apollon.

He is of what is called the old school — a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young — and wears knee-breeches tied with ribbons, and gaiters or stockings.

'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.

I am tired of this city. I am tired of its pagan pretensions and false histories. Hyperion is a poet's world devoid of poetry. Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy.

Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of 'rules,' but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …