Top 1200 Renaissance Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

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

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

The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.

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

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

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Why is Kerala distinct from many other states? It is simply because of the glorious movements of reforms that brought renaissance to the state.

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

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

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.

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

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

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

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

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

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

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.

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

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

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

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

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

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

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!

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

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

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

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.

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

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.

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

A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.