Renaissance Quotes - Page 5

• The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

  Jonathan Cain

  Kids, Parent, Littles

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• Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Expression

  Interview with William Wright, 1950.

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• 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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• I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.

  Jane Byrne

  Opportunity, Cities, Community

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• People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like Twilight, don't buy a ticket.

  Anna Kendrick

  Fun, War, Twilight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

  David LaChapelle

  Artist, Cameras, Done

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• Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

  Harold MacMillan

  Beautiful, Growth, Way

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• Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

  Jerry Saltz

  Italian, Feelings, Looks

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• 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.

  Jill Scott

  Wells, Wanted, Hopefully

  "New Jill Scott Swings to Hollywood [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelly L. Carter, www.ebony.com. September 3, 2013.

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• 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.

  Maurice Sendak

  Paint, Surface, Advise

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• Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

  Hu Shih

  Chinese, Periods

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• The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

  Lawrence Summers

  Important, Economic History, Asian

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• There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

  Tom Robbins

  Ocean, Book, Blue

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

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• (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Church, Asparagus, Aphrodisiac

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

  Gordon Korman

  Men, Justice, Hamilton

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• Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's The Mathematical Analysis of Logic.

  Ernest Nagel

  Nature, Real, Science

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• I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

  Perry Farrell

  Art, Phones, Cells

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

  David LaChapelle

  Wall, Tired, School

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• Senegal needs a renaissance.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Needs

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

  Hermann Goring

  Men, May, Lasts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.

  Giambattista Valli

  Rome, Style, Bangs

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• When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.

  Mark Stevenson

  Exercise, Damage, Cases

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• 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.

  David Levering Lewis

  Eric, May, Biographies

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• A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

  Mark Zandi

  Believe, Home, Years

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• Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.

  Mary McCarthy

  Sports, Art, Hunting

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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