Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Pater

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

Maurice Sendak

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.

Marilyn Manson

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

Irving Babbitt

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.