Top 1200 Renaissance Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.

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

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

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

Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.

I think 'renaissance woman' is a really fancy way of saying that I'm scatter-brained and non-commital.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

In the '60s, the Sunset Strip became insane. The sidewalks and the traffic were jammed. It was a renaissance.

There's so much art and it's gotten so flashy. In the global marketplace, having art that's shiny and has neon lights is almost what you need for anyone to notice it in an art fair situation - and art fairs seem to be more and more the only thing there is.

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

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.

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

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

To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.

The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art... at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is.

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

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

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

I think that a lot of artists have succeeded in making what I might call "curator's art." Everybody's being accepted, and I always want to say, "Really? That's what you've come for? To make art that looks a lot like somebody else's art?" If I am thinking of somebody else's art in front of your art, that's a problem.

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

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

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

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

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.

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

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be very quiet, I'm in here amongst the art.' It's here, art's everywhere. It's how you use your eyes. It's about the enjoyment of visual things. And it's certainly not for any one group of people.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.

It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.

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

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

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

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

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

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

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

Some people don't think that what I do is art - but for me art exists by definition. The beautiful and most liberating thing about being an artist is the ability to say that what I make is art. Art exists because the author says so.

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

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

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

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

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Public art is a unique type of art. It's very different to gallery art because it is something that we pass by every day and it inevitably creates a lot of discussion in a way that gallery art does not.

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

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

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, 'Isn't art supposed to be difficult?' If we can all do art, then it's not really art. It's supposed to be difficult.