All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles… unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing… better than to follow nature.
Caravaggio

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death.
Jacopo della Quercia

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
John Fowles

This knowledge I pursue is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breathe.
Paolo Uccello

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright

Blade Runner 2049, The Beauty Of

Kashmir, Led Zeppelin