“Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?”
Mark Twain
“I was at this restaurant. The sign said "Breakfast Anytime." So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.”
Steven Wright
“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.”
E. Merrill Root
“A sexual resurgence may come first and be the stimulus for a burst of new hopes and a personal renaissance that is also spiritual.”
Gail Sheehy
“In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.”
John Fowles
“Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.”
Mark Rothko
“Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.”
Norman Mailer
