Renaissance Quotes
161 quotes by 146 authors
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through…
— John Berger
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I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence…
— Jane Byrne
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object…
— Tadao Ando
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
— Oscar Wilde
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just…
— Aberjhani
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We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
— Daniel Libeskind
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To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .
— Minoru Mori
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But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take…
— Ralph Borsodi
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I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in…
— Miguel Indurain
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Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware…
— Ernest Nagel
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Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio Alger were alive…
— Paul Galanti
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I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater…
— Don Cheadle
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If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth…
— Werner Herzog
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First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used…
— Karl Urban
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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