Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that's why I am connected with Pitti Palace.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just blows your mind.

Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling.

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.

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

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

Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.