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• What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Unique, Unity, Quality

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks

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• My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

  Joe Bastianich

  Home, Wife, Style

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Growth, Renaissance

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• The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Moon, Cymbals

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and will no longer have names. Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy. The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared. New York is the final fling of this baroque verticality, this centrifugal excentricity, before the horizontal dismantling arrives, and the subterranean implosion that will follow.

  Jean Baudrillard

  New York, Crazy, Light

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• I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Music, Classical Music, Baroque Music

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• A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

  Mark Coleman

  Art, Teenager, Rocks

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• But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Divorce, Garden

  "Critique of Judgment".

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• You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

  Michala Petri

  Stronger, Needs, Today

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• Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

  Camille Henrot

  Art, Aspect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Mean, Technique, Complicated

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• We're living in a time when pretty much anything can happen in the music world. There are a lot of musical languages in which people work. When I think of common practice I think back to the time I was studying the flute, where I learned that in the Baroque period many things were not notated, since they were understood - that was because of common practice.

  Jennifer Higdon

  Thinking, People, Musical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Wisdom, Struggle, Writing

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• In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.

  Camille Henrot

  Christian, Character, Animal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

  Camille Henrot

  Christian, Art, Ancient

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

  Camille Henrot

  Artist, Technique, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

  China Mieville

  Mean, Facts, Minimalist

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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• To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

  Wade Davis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sea

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• I'm not a designer who is very interested in baroque or in fantasy or in the fantastic side of fashion. This exists and this is important, but I'm interested in the very real dimensions.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Fashion, Real, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, which is my favorite era. It's recent enough that it is easy to read - easier than Elizabethan English - but it's pre-Victorian and so doesn't have the pomposity that is often a problem with 19th-century English prose. It is earthy and direct and frequently hilarious.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Style, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

  Barbara Steele

  Beautiful, Dark, Italian

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• I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music - and you know, and I do play a lot of that, obviously - engaging with new composers, engaging with young composers, is really exciting because it makes me look at people of the past in a very different way that they are also living, that there was a lot of subjectivity in the decisions that they were making.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Past, Thinking, Play

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• 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

  Mother, Rights, Years

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• I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines.

  Paul Brown

  Children, Style, Lines

  Source: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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