I kept. . . . returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.
Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets. . . the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity. "
I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty long track record. More likely we may reach a point where each one of us is a typographer with our own custom proprietary typeface.