Gothic/romanticism

Famous quotes containing the words gothic and/or romanticism:

“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)