Renaissance Quotes

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

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.

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.

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

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

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.

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

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.

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

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.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

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.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

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.

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.

It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

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.

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.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

We need a renaissance of wonder.

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

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

You don't know Jay-Z's scedule. He's a renaissance man.