Classicism Quotes

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.”

“I am not an avant-garde artist. I'm a traditionalist. I'm a classicist.”

“Basically, I am a classicist. I am not a romantic. I am a 20th-century classicist.”

“The antique is, in a single word, the classical; what is otherwise called great, genuine, masterly.”

“I am firmly convinced that the trend of the new music is to the classicists.”

“Love reason then: of late lofty essays borrow their chiefest grace, their luster and their price.”

“I am not a provocateur. I am a classicist.”

“The classic is the perfect conquering the imperfect.”

“I am really a classicist, and I mean that in terms of a certain kind of formality. I am not a minimalist.”