Renaissance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 those who have gone before me.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure.
-- David Levering Lewis -
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.
-- David Sylvester -
It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose
-- Des Lynam -
The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.
-- Erich Segal -
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.
-- Frantz Fanon -
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.
-- Gordon Korman -
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
-- Harold MacMillan -
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".
-- Herbert Butterfield -
I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.
-- Hermann Goring -
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
-- Herschel Walker -
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
-- Hu Shih -
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
-- Irving Babbitt -
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
-- J. Irwin Miller -
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.
-- James K. Morrow -
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
-- Jeremy Rifkin -
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.
-- Jill Scott -
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.
-- John Dos Passos -
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.
-- Jonathan Cain -
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
-- Josh Lanyon -
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?
-- Karen DeCrow -
It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
-- Karl Urban -
We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.
-- Klaus Schwab -
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.
-- Lawrence Summers -
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.
-- Leon M. Lederman -
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.
-- Louis Auchincloss -
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
-- Mark Rothko -
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.
-- Martin Filler -
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.
-- Paola Antonelli -
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.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
-- Peter Lewis Allen -
I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
-- Peter Weller -
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
-- Pierre Schaeffer -
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
-- Polykarp Kusch -
But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take the solving of the how-to problems for granted. The first thing I'd provide would be festivals.
-- Ralph Borsodi -
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
-- Ritchie Blackmore -
The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.
-- Robert Briffault -
When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.
-- Sigmar Polke -
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
-- Stanley Crouch -
The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.
-- Theodore Zeldin -
I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.
-- Thomas Reid -
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.
-- Tom Wolfe -
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
-- Viktor Schauberger -
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
-- Walter Pater -
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.
-- Walter Pater -
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.
-- William Lane Craig -
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.
-- David Edelstein -
I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.
-- Domenico Gnoli -
After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.
-- Joshua Oppenheimer -
When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.
-- Mark Stevenson -
We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those who say that global challenges like migration and terror cannot be met with national parochialism. On the other side are those who would like to see a renaissance of the nation-state.
-- Martin Schulz -
I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.
-- Matteo Salvini -
We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.
-- Nick Antosca -
For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.
-- Steven Price -
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.
-- Ben H. Winters -
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
-- John Currin
