Famous quotes containing the words renaissance, architecture, development and/or italy:
“People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It’s a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it’s the togetherness of modern technology.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“The highest form of development is to govern one’s self.”
—Zerelda G. Wallace (1817–1901)
“When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)