Middle Ages Quotes

• Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

  

  Hans Arp
  • Artists
  • Middle Ages

• We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Forget
  • Brutal
  • Middle Ages

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

  

  Anita Loos
  • Age
  • Middle
  • Instance

• It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

  

  Isaac Mayer Wise
  • Suffered
  • Middle Ages
  • Flourished

• When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Future
  • Way
  • Inflation

• The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Notion
  • Existed
  • Doubted

• In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Earth
  • Believed
  • Flat

• We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Almost
  • Frightened
  • Naive

• The desire that drives an artist to graphic work is perhaps partly the effort to capture the unique and indefinite nature of a drawing in a fixed and durable form. Another aspect of it is that the technical manipulations exercise energies in the artist that he does not use in the far less strenuous crafts of drawing and painting.. .the mysterious attraction that surrounded the invention of printing in the Middle Ages is still felt by anyone who takes up graphics seriously and performs every stage in the process wit hits own hands.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Artist

• The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Culture
  • Information
  • Transform