Degenerate Art - Artistic Movements Condemned As Degenerate

Famous quotes containing the words artistic, movements, condemned and/or degenerate:

“What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“You yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm,
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)