Renaissance Quotes

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

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

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

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.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

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

We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those who say that global challenges like migration and terror cannot be met with national parochialism. On the other side are those who would like to see a renaissance of the nation-state.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown 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".

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

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

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

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

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 I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

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 mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

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

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.