Baroque Art

Famous quotes containing the words baroque and/or art:

    The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)