Romanticism Quotes

“The world must be romanticized. In this way its original meaning will be rediscovered.”

“To be a revolutionary, you have to be a romantic.”

“Romanticism is the artistic school that champions man's freedom, his reason, and his capacity to achieve heroic stature.”

“For all its epic sweep and savage spectacle, what's most memorable about Braveheart is its stubborn, bloody-minded romanticism.”

“Romantic poetry is a poetry of the self, but of a self that discovers its identity in relation to the outer world.”

“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

“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.”

“I see my music as being essentially romantic and emotional.”

“I am a 19th-century romantic. I am the last.”

“I am a romantic, a dreamer. I have to be, to be a singer.”

“The romantic poetry is a progressive, universal poetry.”

“I have been accused of being a sentimentalist. The truth is that I am a romanticist.”