Renaissance Quotes

“In the darkness, fear my light.”

— Susann Cokal

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

— Hermann Goring

I'm a renaissance man, a man for all seasons.

— Demond Wilson

Whose little boy are you?

— Anonymous

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

— Marilyn Manson

We need a renaissance of wonder.

— E. Merrill Root

Senegal needs a renaissance.

— Youssou N'Dour

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

— Winston Marshall

I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that's why I am connected with Pitti Palace.

— Alessandro Michele

“Defining the Renaissance Man “A man can do all that he will.”

— Scott Griffiths and Eric Elfman

We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.

— Marilyn Ferguson

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

— Aziz Ansari

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

— Hu Shih

“During the Renaissance, they used arsenic to make their faces pure white”

— Adam Anderson

“If you look at children, you see they are all Renaissance people in the making.”

— Scott Griffiths and Eric Elfman

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

— Walter Pater

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did…

— Penn Jillette

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

— Minoru Mori

Almost all European are before the Renaissance was created by people for whom the notion of art did not exist.

— Anonymous

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

— D. H. Lawrence

“René d’Anjou—"Good King René" as he was known—was one of the most important figures in European culture during the years immediately preceding…

— Michael Baigent

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

— Dean Devlin

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that…

— Polykarp Kusch

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old…

— Jackson Pollock

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals…

— Theodore Zeldin

The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century…

— Alfred de Musset

If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's…

— Katie McGrath

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of…

— Ben Kingsley

After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem…

— Patrick Rothfuss

One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed…

— Elvis Mitchell

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with…

— Hu Shih

“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its…

— Peter Frankopan

“In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one…

— Laura Morelli

The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to…

— U Thant

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in…

— Patti Smith

I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for…

— Miguel Indurain

“I did think about a Ph.D. in computer science, but this is a time in industry where theory and practice are coming…

— Allegra Goodman

“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious…

— Jeffrey Tayler

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by…

— Thomas Henry Huxley