Romanticism Quotes

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  To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Mean, Color

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

  Charles Bukowski

  Change, Romantic, Men

  1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

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• Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Choices, Feelings, Way

  "The 'Reasonabilists' of Berkeley" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. February 04, 2017.

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• Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Expansion, Alternatives

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reason, Lost, Realism

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  All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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• Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Judging, Critics, Judged

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Men, Justice

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• Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

  Jean Paul

  Beautiful, Infinite, Bounds

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• Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

  Dawn Powell

  Writing, People, Satire

  Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”

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• Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Heartbreak, Sarcastic

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.119

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Ends, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• If there is moonlight outside, don't stay inside! If there is candle inside, don't stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moments, Moonlight, Valuable

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• 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

  Romantic, Atmosphere, Mood

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nice, Rain, Love You

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8237, Delphi Classics

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• Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

  George William Curtis

  Memories, Romantic Love, Romance

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• I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Interesting

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Sep 03, 2014

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• Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Morning, Boredom, Thirst

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Color, Romance, Taste

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• There is much romanticism about Formula One of the past. Today it has to be more of a family sport, not less. It is a fixture in the Sunday afternoon TV programmes, and probably flamboyance - those white silk suits and devil-may-care attitudes - would be outworn attributes today.

  Martin Sorrell

  Sports, Attitude, Sunday

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Taken, Acting, Adults

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• Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Mother, Song

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Science

  The Sign of the Four ch. 1 (1890)

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• Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

  Alfred de Musset

  Abuse, Adjectives

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