Art Quote by Arthur Erickson

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and…

— Joel Garreau

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and…

— M. C. Escher

Why alhough the Renaissance eventuall became a Euope wide intellectual and artistic movement, and why did it developed first and most distinctively in Italy?…

— Brandon McCaw

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was…

— Moby

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true…

— Louis Auchincloss

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on…

— Theodore Zeldin

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

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights…

— Kip Thorne

“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its earliest days…

— Peter Frankopan

I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to…

— John Ralston Saul

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

— Walter Pater