We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval…

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.

— Oleg Cassini

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

— Hilda Doolittle

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

— Irving Babbitt

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't…

— Paul Laffoley

“Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental…

— erwin panofsky

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic…

— John Millington Synge

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should…

— Devendra Banhart

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from…

— Anonymous

But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

— Hugh Dancy

Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for…

— Joe Randazzo

Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects…

— Arne Glimcher

I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval…

— Mark Kostabi

I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie:…

— Grimes

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…

— Richard Dawkins

“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my…

— Mark Noce