Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.” — Julianne Davidow Copy Share Image
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place.” — John Berryman Copy Share Image
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.” — Walter Shaw Sparrow Copy Share Image
It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad.… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance. — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“I feed my heart with sighs, that's all it asks, I live on tears, I think I'm born to weep; I don't… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
I'm asked that a lot: 'James, is there really a continuing spiritual renaissance occurring on this planet? Look at all the conflict,… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Obviously, I carved out a pretty successful path and career for myself. But I'm kind of fascinated with, for lack of a… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest. If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I… — Viktor Vijay Kumar Copy Share Image
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of… — Edmund Bourne Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
What's up?" Christian asked. "Need some hairstyling tips?" "Tips you stole from me? No thanks. But I hear you've got a really… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
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