68 Quotes About Renaissance

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.

The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest.If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of bodies of slaves and trampled humanity through colonization

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

I feed my heart with sighs, that's all it asks, I live on tears, I think I'm born to weep;I don't complain of that, since in my stateweeping is sweeter than you might believe.

The true Renaissance person is endowed with panoramic attention.... The habit of noticing the ensemble of everything and its constituent parts is a matter of will, not of innate aptitude. It involves the conscious noticing of things and the gaps that separate and connect them.

Going deeper to gain expertise doesn’t mean giving up on things you’re interested in; it means having more of what you love the most.

Whose little boy are you?