Rococo Quotes

• You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.

  Michael Kors

  Strong, Yang, Layers

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

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• In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

  Alan Perlis

  Running, Humorous, Long

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• All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.

  Diana Vreeland

  Buddhist, Children, Color

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

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

  Frank Wedekind

  Kitsch, Gothic, Form

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• You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.

  Arno Hintjens

  Art, Hard Work, Relaxation

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• There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Education, Children, Science

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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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• Oooh!" Bill squealed. "Very rococo." "So, I'm really doing this? I'm just going to go down there and pretend--" (Luce) "No pretending." Bill shook his head. "Own it. Own that cleavage, girl, you know you want to.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Want, Bills

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.902, Delacorte Press

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