Quotes About Art

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

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

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.

Renaissance always comes out of depression.

Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance art and the Eurovision Song Contest.

How I can be an active voice for gay people but also the music industry? This is the art we need right now. This is what we need right now. We're in a renaissance, and we need people to rebel, come forth, and bring messages into art.

My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

The asparagus effect is what happens sometimes when you render 2D images into 3D.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I want 'Rent' to last forever.

'Rent' opened up my heart, my senses. I was never the same. I hadn't been back in that place in the same way since. 'Hamilton' put me back in that place.

'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art.

There's nothing better than renting a small, 50-seat theater in L.A. and just getting up there.

I like to produce work for specific places, and it is difficult to do repeat shows in the same space.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.