Baroque (n.) is faith trying to win the argument by volume.
Baroque (n.) puts a cherub on anything that stands still long enough.
Baroque (n.) is ornament that refuses to stop once the point has been made.
Baroque (n.) is what a style does when it has more money left than ideas.
Chic (n.) is style that arrives before explanation and leaves before apology
Chic (n.) is the confidence to leave one thing out.
Chic (n.) is like a password, changed the week enough people learn it.
Chic (n.) is beauty with all the sex, sweat and seed sucked out, the dry husk of lust.
Classicism (n.) is the will to simplify, to strengthen, to make happiness visible, to dreadfulness — the courage for psychological nakedness.
Classicism (n.) requires a quantum of coldness, lucidity and hardness — hatred for feeling and the rambling; one should not play with artistic formulas but remodel life so that it must afterward formulate itself.
Classicism (n.) is contradicted by moral loftiness: one virtue preponderating makes a moral monster, hostile to equilibrium — whoever had it and was still classical must have had immorality of the same height.
Classicism (n.) gets revived whenever a new regime wants to look like it has always been in charge.