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“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”

“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.”

Wells Might Wealth Deals Late Historical Critics Posts Early Work Classifying Schoenberg Classicists

Book:Essays on Music

Source: Essays on Music

“I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.”

Book Hate Pieces Comfort I Hate Furniture Artwork Eclectic Upholstery Classicists

Author:Tim Gunn

“My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.”

Ifs Book Mother Reading House Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Professors Retired Classicists

Author:Sarah Dessen

“In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Has Beens Purpose My Own Study Building Habit Approach Majors Solutions Program Clients Toilets Classicists

Author:Philip Johnson

“...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with detachment, for whom nature's appeal is primarily pictorial, classicists as opposed to romanticists, perhaps. On such a day, one is usually excited, physically exhilarated, mentally stimulated. Only not much is left for the imagination.”

Fall Left Imagination Views Clear Sky Seasons Excited Appeals Autumn Detachment Pictorial Panorama Classicists

Author:Charlton Ogburn

“We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.”

Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

“You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.”

People Want Stills Bravery Originals Vinyl Classicists

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!”

Heart Bits Madness Classicists

Author:Phillip Lim

“Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.”

Thinking Call Me Composer Pianist Reactionaries Futurist Classicists

Author:Anton Rubinstein

“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”

Literature Catholic Classicists

Author:T. S. Eliot