I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
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.
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.
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
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.
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.
As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?
Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.
Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.
Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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.
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
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.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
