Renaissance Quotes - Page 3

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's a music that's actually in the universe, they believed, that's out there in different dimensions.

Senegal needs a renaissance.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

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 a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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 of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.