Renaissance Quotes

I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

We need a renaissance of wonder.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

You don't know Jay-Z's scedule. He's a renaissance man.

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by Bronzino than to go look at a Renaissance costume.