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A wild appreciation of men and women ... who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance ... The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate. -- Jessa Crispin
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes. -- Bauvard
I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad. -- Natalie Portman
My father was a romantic who believed in kismet, who trusted there were no accidents, that every person we encountered was sent to us for a reason. -- Jennifer Handford
Who wept at the romance of the streets with their pushcarts full of onions and bad music, who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the bridge, and rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts -- Allen Ginsberg
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it? -- Robin G. Collingwood
Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. -- Harold Bloom
Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out. -- Ayn Rand
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. -- Laura Marling
People with imagination -- Arthur Levine
The Romanticists did not present a hero as a statistical average, but as an abstraction of man's best and highest potentiality, applicable to and achievable by all men, in various degrees, according to their individual choices. -- Ayn Rand
I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness! -- Phillip Lim
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up. -- Daniel Radcliffe
The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses. -- Susan Sontag
A romantic striving for an impossible ideal. -- Ron Chernow
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. -- Ray Bradbury
A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world ... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll. -- Jon Pareles
A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days. -- Shannon Ables
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. -- Julien Benda
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. -- Cyril Connolly
Romantic Egoist
Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain. -- Bisco Hatori
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. -- Simon Heffer
Within the classic mode, however, the romantic has some appearances of his own. Frivolous, irrational, erratic, untrustworthy, interested primarily in pleasureseeking. Shallow. Of no substance. Often a parasite who cannot of will not carry his own weight. A real drag on society. -- Robert Pirsig
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. -- Tom Robbins
Romanticism demands mastery of the primary element of fiction: the art of storytelling - which requires three cardinal qualities: ingenuity, imagination, a sense of drama. -- Ayn Rand
These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. -- Ian Mcewan
If these artist were trying to convince me that the pursuit of love in the postdigital age was more exciting, more mysterious, more ... . well, everything love should be, they'd failed. -- Kate Klise
They reciprocated the great and saving lie
that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things
willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
In this twilight they were more imagined than seen, but I felt surrounded by the practitioners of a sacred mediocrity, an elegant mediocrity cloistering inaccessible tortures. I don't know quite how to put it. People, men, proud of their cliches yet full of helpless poetry. -- Denis Johnson
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental. -- Mark Rothko
I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time. -- Freddy Fender
They (Medievalists) are soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed. -- Isaac Asimov
Hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ... -- Spiro T. Agnew
she thought that the romance novelists were wrong and it was men, not women, who were the true romantics. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Basically, I'm a romantic. -- Pia Zadora
The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of paramount importance, when the non-visual or dark senses were operating as organs of knowledge. -- Peter Redgrove
I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them. -- Anais Nin
cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are. -- John Connolly
Eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom -- Esther Perel
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. -- Oscar Wilde
They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship. -- Abhijit Naskar
I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun? -- Kristin Walker
The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world. -- Jonathan Galassi
They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion. -- Rumi
What had really given birth to the Romantic Movement in the history of human ideas was affluence - an increase in the number of people who had plenty enough to eat, enough education to read and write, and time to ruminate on their own personal emotions. -- Anne Rice
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters. -- Paul Fry
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again. -- Novalis
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. -- Leni Riefenstahl
I'm a romantic at heart. -- Tyler Farr
I'm a big old romantic. -- Colin Farrell
I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies. -- Chris Evans
Something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical. -- Edgar Allan Poe
What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false. -- Anne Bronte
I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society. -- Rufus Wainwright
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling. -- Charles Baudelaire
Painters
and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday! -- Kurt Vonnegut
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions. -- Shulamith Firestone
Who invented the word love? -- Margaret Atwood
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men -- Fernando Pessoa
I like romanticizing romance. -- Ansel Elgort
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. -- Maurice Blanchot
I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala. -- Luis Gonzalez
I happen to be really a romantic. -- Amanda Seyfried
You know those French impressionists; all they did was fornicate, drink absinthe, and play dominoes. -- Penny Reid
...and lovers of romance novels and dissident rebels and brothers in Christ and druids and shamans and aphrodisiac vendors and scriveners and purveyors of real fake passports and gun-runners and porters and bric-a-brac trades and mining prospectors short on liquid assets and Siamese twins... -- Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio. -- Jan Morris
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music. -- Lou Doillon
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie. -- Aristotle.
I'm a bit of a romantic. -- Eric Bana
They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits -- Evan Meekins
A romantic," said Nightingale much, much later. "The most dangerous people on Earth. -- Ben Aaronovitch
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. -- Thom Mayne
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark. -- William Cowper
Writing this, I'm reminded that until I was quite old I too adhered to the romantic cult of madness. I got over it, thank God. Experience has taught me that this particular form of romanticism is pure stupidity, and that madness is the saddest, most dismal thing on earth. -- Emmanuel Carrere
I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted. -- Henri
The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them. -- Norman Mailer
A romantic, I think the word is. Latin for idiot. -- Tom Holt
I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation. -- Jean Thompson
In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance? -- Yu Hua
Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can. -- Yuval Noah Harari
I'm a romantic guy. -- Fred Durst
Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation. -- Andre Gide
I'm a hopeless romantic. -- Lance Bass
The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. -- Tom Robbins
AESTHETICS OF THE AESTHETICIAN
What is the aesthetician
But a mule hitched to the times? -- Kenneth Koch
The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less. -- Mason Cooley
Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women. -- Francis Bacon
Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing. -- Alice Munro
I am a romantic, I admit it. -- Keith Jarrett
Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self. -- Dennis Lehane
They were inventing their own type of relationship, one that wasn't officially recognized by history or immortalized in poetry or song, but which felt truer and less constraining. -- Hanya Yanagihara
people, the kind of man who -- Nicholas Sparks
For the Romantic, it is only the briefest of steps from a glimpse of a stranger to the formulation of a majestic and substantial conclusion: that he or she may constitute a comprehensive answer to the unspoken questions of existence. The -- Alain De Botton
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. -- Alfred Sisley
I am a hopeless romantic. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. -- Tom Robbins
While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets humanity fall a victim to the industrial-commercial processes, which, unimpeded by his dreaming, go on with their deadly work. -- Edmund Wilson
Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they make that description true of the movement as a whole, as if romanticism were essentially reactionary. -- Frederick C. Beiser
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science. -- Thomas Carlyle
