I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a Renaissance man. Or you could say I have a short attention span. I'm always thinking, what shall… — David Essex Copy Share Image
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Why is Kerala distinct from many other states? It is simply because of the glorious movements of reforms that brought renaissance to… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
I can't write a piece of music in a void, I have to know what instrument I'm writing it for. In the… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
“To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he [Leonardo] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver… — Girogio Vasari Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal… — E. Merrill Root Copy Share Image
There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a… — Maurizio Seracini Copy Share Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. -Leonardo Da Vinci” — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image