Art Quote by Miles J. Unger

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell…

— D. A. Carson

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

— Miles J. Unger

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature…

— John Berger

“The grand purpose of the classically built environment, ultimately, is to propel us out of our finite selves and into the limitlessness of the…

— Kristen Wagner

“I call it our English Renaissance because it is indeed a sort of new birth of the spirit of man, like the great Italian…

— Oscar Wilde

I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed,…

— Yitzhak Rabin

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

— Jeffrey Deitch

“Glancing round to see that no one was watching, I sniffed at it. The leather binding, soft and supple, was pungent, but it was…

— Linda Proud

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead,…

— J. G. Ballard

“Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just another task…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund…

— Alan Lee

“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any artistic work,…

— Oscar Wilde