Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.

Under the banner of Romanticism, which broke down old laws in the arts, in philosophy, which called out for unlimited freedom of thought, we called for a political revolution.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Dance is about portraying and telling a story and whether that be two males, two females, a group of guys, or a group of girls, it doesn't matter as long as the story is beautiful.

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. Therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.