20 Baroque Quotes for You to Enjoy

All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. Pope Benedict XVI

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For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way. Alessandro Michele

Fashion Me Think Everything Way About Very Baroque

The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing. Charles Hazlewood

You Build Same Thing Way Slim Voice Layers Counter Counterpoint Idea Like Another Answer Accompanying Up Texture Same Then Really Your Baroque Moment Original Original Idea Thing

If it ain't baroque, don't fax it. Denis Norden

Fax Baroque

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 Justice Rights Women Conservative Mother Old Style Tribe Out Madly Highly Over Fell Sort Catholics Issues Were Years Irish Just Elaborate Social Social Justice Full-On Baroque Old-Fashioned

Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many palaces, happily decorated with cherubs and other symbols of the baroque era. The city made an indelible impression on me. Gunter Blobel

Me Remember Made Other Indelible City Through Driving Still Era Impression Happily Decorated Baroque Many Palaces Symbols

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. Jacqueline Carey

Funny Wisdom Gave Finally Spent Embraced Voice Struggling Clean Tendencies Write Writer Prose Suppress Wrote Because Years Up Trying Conventional Literary Conventional Wisdom Spare Naturally Baroque Series

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

Music Think Other About More Genre Learned Than Any Baroque

We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome. Larry Harvey

Beginning City Paris Civilized Like Been Rome Baroque Desert

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 Looking Become Down Restaurants Something Chefs Dumb Lot Very Done Different Predictable Them Cookbooks Baroque

Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground. Rachel Zoe

What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset. Simon Rattle

Mindset Counts Instrument Modern Whether Really Your Baroque

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 French Italian German Baroque

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done. Yvette Mimieux

Love Needs Wild Slightly Those Television Some Excessive Ideas Because Material Odd Get Done Theatrical Much Baroque Chance

While I was writing the songs for 'Fuzz Universe,' I was immersing myself in Bulgarian Female Choir music, Baroque lute and violin pieces, Johnny Cash songs about trains, cows, mules, and mining coal, the Bee Gees, and Ronnie James Dio. Paul Gilbert

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