Top 22 Renaissance Italy Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Renaissance Italy

#1. Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

Jerry Saltz

#2. Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.

Julianne Davidow

#3. Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock.

Kevin Wilson

#4. Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Marsilio Ficino

#5. sometimes when we say out loud what we fear, our fears become reality.

Eva Wiseman

#6. The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Marsilio Ficino

#7. Mister Hendricks [was] manning a rotating-barreled minigun fixed to the deck of the helicopter
completely illegally, of course.
But then, I suppose that's really one major advantage to working with criminals. They just don't care about that sort of thing.

Jim Butcher

#8. When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Robert Gottlieb

#9. Hope is the light through which we see the future.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Too much knowing is misery.

Lorenzo De' Medici

#11. If you let them kill you, they will

Charles Bukowski

#12. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#13. The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.

Robert Briffault

#14. When in doubt, win the trick.

Edmond Hoyle

#15. Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

C. JoyBell C.

#16. He'll eat you alive, shit you out and then piss on his dump.

John Green

#17. There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

Valeria Golino