“René d’Anjou—"Good King René" as he was known—was one of the most important figures in European culture during the years immediately preceding… — Michael Baigent Copy Share Image
[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that… — Polykarp Kusch 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'm more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The Nineties was such an incredible period. There was this real sense of community and such a uniqueness to it. There were… — Edward Kowalczyk 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
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
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
Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves… — Jerry Saltz 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
If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural… — Ayn Rand 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
How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages.… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole 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
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
“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
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture. — Nick Antosca 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 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
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
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors… — Nolan Gerard Funk Copy Share Image
People can pick and choose what they want out of it, but I feel like I'm a modern day Renaissance man of… — Dolph Ziggler Copy Share Image
While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance. — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I love making miniatures, painting, writing, music and dance. These are the things I'm naturally good at. I'd like to think of… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image