EXTREMIST • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Extremist

... Milhaud, Georges Auric, Poulenc, and Germaine Taillefer [Z]—chaperoned by the brilliant Jean Cocteau. All five have their places in contemporary civilization: and such talents are not to be disposed of simply by the present of a bad name. For it is not enough to call an artist "extremist" or "reactionary," "Cubist" or "Impressionist," and condemn or approve him as such. These classifications are merely journalistic or, if you will, archaeological conveniences. It is the critic's business to inquire not so much whether an artist is "advanced" or "Cubist" or ...

— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell

... An extremist always lacks the sense of proportion. He allows a single idea to fill his mental horizon. He is fanciful, and when an idea comes to him he turns his high power imagination upon it, and it immediately becomes overwhelming in magnitude and importance. Thereafter ...

— The Head Voice and Other Problems - Practical Talks on Singing • D. A. Clippinger