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• 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

  Hate, Dumb, Different

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• My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.

  Iris Apfel

  Looks

  "Iris Apfel: the muse of New York" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Dog, Sleep, Writing

  Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

  Charles Jencks

  Space, Perspective, Elements

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• I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Thinking, Voice, Singing

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

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• The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

  Kevin McCloud

  Badass, Bad Ass, Fancy

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• The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Lying, Men

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• The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

  Philip K. Dick

  Simple, Principles, Facts

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Cutting, People, Berlin

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• While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

  Win Butler

  Beautiful, Church, Artistic

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

  Jan Garbarek

  World, Jazz, Classical Music

  "London jazz festival 2012: Where has Jan Garbarek gone? I miss him" by John Lewis, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular style that is very Peru that you don’t see anywhere else; it’s got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.

  Mario Testino

  Interesting, Appreciate, Style

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• My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.

  Florence Welch

  Religious, Children, Drama

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• Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Imagination, Chamber Music

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

  Frank Wedekind

  Kitsch, Gothic, Form

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• Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

  Carlo Petrini

  Food, Government, Cooking

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• I'm not able to completely escape naturalism. It's very difficult to escape from naturalism without being too dry. That's what I try to do in my cinema - escape naturalism and do films that are, at the same time, realistic but have a lot of fantasy. It's very difficult in cinema to get away from what life is about, from real life. The way the actors work has to be realistic - you can't do Baroque acting - so it's very complicated. And, we're human beings, so we're not perfect. I'm trying to do something different.

  Philippe Garrel

  Real, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.

  Philip Hensher

  Character, Independent, Unique

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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe the other. They believed in the rational exploration of the universe, and they also believed that there was a hidden spiritual truth. Baroque thinkers were able to live the two at the same time. In any case, for me, it's necessary to live that way also.

  Eugene Green

  Spiritual, Believe, Civilization

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

  Donald Knuth

  Ideas, Two, Taste

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• The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

  Christopher Flavin

  Kyoto, Challenges, Structure

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• I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Thinking, Baroque Music, Genre

  "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

  Arundhati Roy

  Sea, Entering, Body

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.245, Penguin Books India

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• I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete... This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Beach, Squares

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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