Admire Quote by Lucius Beebe

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

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

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

— Winston Marshall

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my…

— Brian Bird

Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not…

— Michael Ayrton

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

— Hermann Goring

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

— Hermann Goring

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

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

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be…

— Paul Cezanne

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas…

— Polykarp Kusch

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