{"quotes":[{"text":"The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.","author":"Asti Hustvedt","tags":["baroque","decadence","decadent","language","literature","obscure"],"id":157470,"author_id":"Asti+Hustvedt"},{"text":"History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. Mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.","author":"Khang Kijarro Nguyen","tags":["baroque","beauty","cathedrals","faces","history","mosuqes","stories","synagogues","temples","wrinkles"],"id":261151,"author_id":"Khang+Kijarro+Nguyen"},{"text":"Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.","author":"Kate Grenville","tags":["bach","baroque","music","organ"],"id":350318,"author_id":"Kate+Grenville"},{"text":"Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.","author":"Joan Armatrading","tags":["music","like","baroque "],"id":430108,"author_id":"Joan+Armatrading"},{"text":"I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.","author":"Nuno Roque","tags":["art","artist","artistic-expression","artists-life","artists","baroque","baroque-art","drawing","drawings","excentric","funny","humor","humorous","rococo"],"id":445876,"author_id":"Nuno+Roque"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["baroque","gift-giving","gifts","rococo"],"id":462957,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}