romanticism, n.Definitions

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

Romanticism is a German movement that was essentially a mixture of alcohol, suicide, and the provinces.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

Romanticism is a movement, in England, that was a happy mixture of laudanum, exile, and tuberculosis.

Romanticism is laudable in its hostility to rationalism and appreciation for nature but naive in its religious overtones its reverence for the common man.

Romanticism is the notion of making us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world... it is the educating of the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

Romanticism is the idea that what is more important for human life is not what propositions we believe but what vocabulary we use.

Romanticism is another word for modern art that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.