Memorable Renaissance Quotes

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"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Michelangelo
"There is no greater danger than the ignorance of the world."
Vasari
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
Voltaire
"Study the past if you would define the future."
Confucius
"The painting is a poetry that is seen rather than felt, and the poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen."
Leonardo da Vinci
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
Isaac Newton
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"To create, one must first question everything."
Eileen Gray
"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you."
Tony Hsieh
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is a reflection of society."
Edward Albee
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
Robert F. Kennedy
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"No human mind is capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library."
Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"One man with courage is a majority."
Thomas Jefferson
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lao Tzu
"The aim of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate; it is life, intensified, brilliant life."
Alice Neel
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The greatest genius is the one who is most like the average man."
Vincent van Gogh
"A good artist should be anonymous. It enhances his works."
Mark Rothko
"Simply put, I am not all bad. I may not seem so to you, but I have my own standards—a sort of internal scruple."
Pablo Picasso
"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Confucius
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent van Gogh
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi
"Life is a project that we undertake; it is not a given."
Anna Deavere Smith
"In every work of art the spirit of the times is expressed."
Leo Tolstoy
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo
"The only way to deal with this life is to find your own highway."
David Bowie
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Painting is a blind man's profession."
Pablo Picasso
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
Aristotle
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
Pablo Picasso
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
Lauren Bacall
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Émile Zola
"You see, in this world, there are two kinds of people: people like you and me who are driven by exuberant creativity—and those other people."
David Bowie
"A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it."
Edward Steichen
"The greatest artwork is the life of an individual."
Giorgio Vasari
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is a reflection of the society that creates it."
Benvenuto Cellini
"The human heart is the most curious object of all in the universe."
Andreas Vesalius
"In every work of art, the spirit of the times appears."
Erasmus
"He who is not a philosopher is a fool."
Marsilio Ficino
"To be a great artist is to learn to see the world as it is."
Piero della Francesca
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
Paul Valéry
"A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the prey."
Lorenzo de’ Medici
"We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love."
Mother Teresa
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
Lao Tzu
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs
"Nature is the ultimate guide to art."
José Ortega y Gasset
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
Miguel de Cervantes
"The universe is written in the language of mathematics."
Galileo Galilei
"Let whoever is in charge keep the people's interests at heart."
Plato
"The perfection of art is to be the expression of the artist's joy."
Vincent van Gogh
"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness."
Vasari
"We are not the sum of our possessions."
Jorge Luis Borges
"Life without passion is like an arrow without a target."
Clement of Alexandria
"In every work of art there is an element of compromise."
Brunelleschi
"To create is to live twice."
Albert Camus
"Genius is eternal patience."
Michelangelo
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The greatest breakthroughs of the twenty-first century will not be in technology, but in our ability to be inspired by the human condition."
Edward de Bono
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."
Vince Lombardi
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo da Vinci
"To be a great chef means to be a great scientist."
Ferran Adrià
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up your belief that you can't have it."
Dr. Robert Anthony
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James Whistler
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Albert Einstein
"In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Plutarch
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. Only the critic sees beauty in things."
Oscar Wilde
"Creation is a means of self-interpretation."
William Faulkner
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem."
Thomas Szasz
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
Helen Keller
"Without order, nothing can exist. Without chaos, nothing can evolve."
Anonymous
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Pablo Picasso
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
Pablo Picasso
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The sculptor is a maker of shapes. I am a sculptor who shapes time."
Alberto Giacometti
"Man is the measure of all things."
Protagoras
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Oscar Wilde
"Nature is the ultimate guide."
Michelangelo
"There is no greater pleasure than to be ruled by your heart and not by your head."
Raphael
"The painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The human mind is made for the production of knowledge."
Francesco Petrarca
"A great book is a great evil."
Petrarch
"To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered."
John Dewey
"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
Michelangelo
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
Leonardo da Vinci
"An artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."
Leonardo da Vinci
"In every work of art, the spirit of the artist and the subject matter correspond."
Michelangelo
"Knowledge itself is power."
Francis Bacon
"A thing well done is worth doing."
Francis Bacon
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the perfection of man."
Alberto Giacometti
"Life well spent is long."
Leonardo da Vinci
"What is done in love is done well."
Vincent Van Gogh
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Claude Debussy
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
Albert Einstein
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Socrates
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