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“I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.”

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Author:Nuno Roque

“Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to life, when who knows what's going to happen to you anyway; ignoring virtue and conventions to cherish only the pleasures you are definitely experiencing now: this is the Cocoro of Rococo. No matter how much deep thought, hard work, and agonizing effort went into coaxing out some insight, if that insight is boring, or not beautiful, it doesn't matter. And even if something is made just for laughs, if you find it pleasing, it has value. Other people's opinions and labor do not figure into your assessment; choosing things with your own personal sense of "I like this, I don't like that" is the ultimate individualism that sustains the very foundation of Rococo. Rococo, therefore, embodies the spirit of punk rock and anarchism more than any philosophy. Only in Rococo—elegant yet in bad taste, extravagant yet defiant and lawless—can I discover the meaning of life.”

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Book:Kamikaze Girls

Source: Kamikaze Girls

“She had the kind of brilliant, decadent, Rococo beauty that made his fingers itch to grab a pencil or a paintbrush.”

Love Beauty Rococo

Book:Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Source: Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Tierna, esbelta. graciosa, encantadora, juguetona y coqueta. aquella muchacha de diecinueve años se convierte desde el primer momento en la diosa del rococó, el prototipo de la moda y del gusto dominantes”

Book:Maria Antonieta

Source: Maria Antonieta

“...crossed the room to where a selection of implements was arranged on a table top. These could have been mistaken for the trade tools of a cook, physician, or torturer, save for the fact that the surface on which they rested was a slab of polished pink marble, topping a white and gilt dressing table-cum-sculpture, done up in the new, hyper-Baroque style named Rococo. It was adorned, for example, with several cherubs, bows drawn, eyes asquint, as they drew beads on unseen targets, butt cheeks polished to a luster with jeweler’s rouge. It had, in other words, all the earmarks of a gift that had been sent to the princess by someone with a lot of money who did not know her very well.”

Gifts Baroque Gift Giving Rococo

Author:Neal Stephenson

“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.”

Art Hard One Thing Hard Work Breaths Relaxation Ornaments Inverted Rococo

Author:Arno Hintjens

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

Long Running Humorous Program Long Runs Rubble Rococo

Author:Alan Perlis

“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.”

Made Strong Extremes Mood Familiar Feminine Layers Masculine Unfamiliar Sexiness Yang Yin And Yang Rococo

Author:Michael Kors

“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.”

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Author:Paul Brown

“Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.”

Form Contemporary Gothic Kitsch Baroque Rococo

Author:Frank Wedekind

“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.”

Knows Want Girl Bills Pretending Cleavage Rococo

Book:The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

Source: The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

“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.”

Want Children Doe Age Science Life Is Growth Education Periods Garden Forests Diets Pot Appetite Spontaneous Variation Pupils Vigorous Rococo Wild Free

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“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.”

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Book:D.V.

Source: D.V.