Renaissance Quotes

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

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

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

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 rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

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

What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.

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

The city [ LA] is kind of going through an interesting transition; sort of renaissance time where there is so much going on here. I think it's really exciting to be here.

Senegal needs a renaissance.

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

Whose little boy are you?

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

We've never heardAbout a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have livedIn history can't measure upIn bravery against the Maid.

Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it.

And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears.

In the darkness, fear my light.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.Winston Churchill

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.