I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
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.