Top 377 Renaissance Quotes & Sayings

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini or a road company Cosimo de' Medici ... the Renaissance Man did a number of things, many of them well, a few beautifully. He was no damned specialist.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

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

People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?

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

I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born into, and shaped by, the very community in which those poets of the past produced so much of the work we associate with the Harlem Renaissance. We speak from the same place, both literally and metaphorically.

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

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

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

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.

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

We're starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses.

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

We need a renaissance of wonder.

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

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment when we have the ability to step out of the story altogether. Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation. People in a variety of different arts, philosophies and sciences have the ability to reframe their reality. Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'. It is the rebirth of old ideas in a new context.

My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.

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

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

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.

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.

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.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

Senegal needs a renaissance.

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

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

Renaissance always comes out of depression.

RuPaul is someone who I really look up to because he's very much a renaissance man.

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

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.

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

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

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

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.

We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it is the greatest danger true religious experience has ever been confronted with.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

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

In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.

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

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

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

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

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

Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.

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

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.