Rococo Quotes

• 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.

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  Lauren Kate

  Girl   Want   Bills  

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

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• 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.

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  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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• 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.

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  G. Stanley Hall

  Education   Children   Science  

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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.

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  Arno Hintjens

  Art   Hard Work   Relaxation  

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

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  Frank Wedekind

  Kitsch   Gothic   Form  

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

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  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.

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  Diana Vreeland

  Buddhist   Children   Color  

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

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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.

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  Paul Brown

  Children   Style   Lines  

  Source: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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