Quotes of: Renaissance Keyword

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.

Marina Abramovic

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist

The Dark Ages gradually ended six centuries ago with the Renaissance, which seeded new ideas for a different world. The Renaissance ideal dominated our culture until three centuries ago, from the 14th to the 18th century, when it was superseded by mo...

Jacob Lund Fisker

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

Penn Jillette

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

Moby

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its heigh...

George Edward Woodberry

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis

Notwithstanding the memories of slavery, and in the face poverty, ignorance, terrorism, and subjugation still deeply woven into their lives, the embittered past of blacks was taken onto a much higher plane of intellectual and artistic consideration d...

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.

The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis

We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era’s creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and hero...

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

The Renaissance did not break completely with mediaeval history and values. Sir Philip Sidney is often considered the model of the perfect Renaissance gentleman. He embodied the mediaeval virtues of the knight (the noble warrior), the lover (the man ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Education continued to come under particularly strong fire...: If women learned how to manage in the world as well as men, if they learned about history and politics and studied for a profession, of course they would soon be demanding a voice and a r...

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

Peter Weller

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

Sigmar Polke

Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.

Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the crit...

I Am Right You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance: From Rock Logic to Water Logic

The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.

The Scriptlings

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Traveling in India gives you a chance to observe a renaissance.

Marie Brenner