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Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

— Michael Haneke

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

— Jay Kay

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

— John Boyne

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

— Steve Hackett

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

— Robert Gottlieb

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

— Rufus Wainwright

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

— Brandi Carlile

✗Opposing Perspectives

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

— Robert Wilson