Renaissance Art Quotes

• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  John Berger

  Art, Italian, Space

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

  Sigmar Polke

  Art, Renaissance, Young

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

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Lasts, Renaissance

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

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Thinking, Renaissance

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

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Church, Saint

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• As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Children, Catholic

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