Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.” — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
“do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.” — Miles J. Unger Copy Share Image
“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Glancing round to see that no one was watching, I sniffed at it. The leather binding, soft and supple, was pungent, but… — Linda Proud 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
I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
“I call it our English Renaissance because it is indeed a sort of new birth of the spirit of man, like the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The grand purpose of the classically built environment, ultimately, is to propel us out of our finite selves and into the limitlessness… — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that… — Degas Copy Share Image
“The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of the society… — Theodore J. Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca… — Midhat Gazale Copy Share Image
Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
