Anything Quote by James May

“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an ostentatious amusement…

— Peter Sloterdijk

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of…

— Alexander McCall Smith

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they…

— Aldous Huxley

The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness.…

— Bernard Berenson

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 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

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 classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the…

— Herbert Read

Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling…

— Jerry Saltz

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

— Winston Marshall

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to…

— Lola Kirke

“The unity of style not only of the Christian Middle Ages but of the Renaissance expresses in each case the different structure of social…

— Anonymous