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
I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series. — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership . — Minoru Mori Copy Share Image
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. — Walter Pater 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
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
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. — Alberto Villoldo 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
Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
During freedom struggle, It were authors and artists who made the Nation stand with their pen, and now their pen can create… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance… James Davis's finely… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet… — Richard Rodriguez 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
“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
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Renaissance,” Alice’s husband said casually. “A rebirth? Like you guys have been able to start again now that you’re together?” Cali shook… — Zannie Adams Copy Share Image
“Finding her voice at last, she asked, “What dreams are you having, sir?” “I dreamt I was in a spring field and… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization. — Matteo Salvini 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
“A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place.” — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
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
