The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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.
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
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.
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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.
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance. . . . James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure.
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. . . . One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.