The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity,… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest. If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I… — Viktor Vijay Kumar Copy Share Image
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were… — Malcolm X 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
I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music -… — Mahan Esfahani 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
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester Copy Share Image
Going into 'Da Vinci's Demons' I didn't know anything about renaissance music and going into 'Black Sails,' I didn't know about sea… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this… — Klaus Schwab Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
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