3 Timeless Renaissance Quotes To Improve Your Today’s Well Being
Be a warrior — not a worrier.
“Good Morrow” is the Renaissance Latin version of “Good Morning.”
The famous artworks: Mona Lisa, the last supper, and the birth of venus flowed from the bowl of a Renaissance. Though the Renaissance period began in the 14 century, the artwork started when Leonardo da Vinci took his first breath in 1452.
Since then, the Renaissance period developed humanism as the main philosophy. For them, the Renaissance was a way out from dark politics towards:
- Art
- Knowledge, and
- Rich culture
Aside from that, the Renaissance teaches us how cultures have coped with challenges and overcame them.
As the French word “Renaissance” (means rebirth) in English, studying it brings a sense of self-fulfillment. Every time you reread the quotes, a new thought will pop into your mind.
So without further ado, let’s read 3 quotes from the Renaissance to improve today’s well-being.
1. Live to the fullest —
Throughout history, the color red acted as a decisive tone.
Mcgeeorlean, the contributor at the Heart of History, writes:
From British redcoats to Egyptian women using a red color on lips and cheeks, red represents a color full of life and power, whereas black represents mystery and madonna.
That is one reason Titian, a Renaissance painter, loved the color vermillion that even Titian red is named after him.
Titian, a Renaissance painter, believed:
“A good painter needs only three colors: black, white, and red.”
Secondary colors like brown and pink come from the primary ones: black, white, and red.
Take, for example, weddings where women wear white gowns and veils. Or maybe take Turkish and Indians still desiring creamy red color to wear at their wedding.
We mostly don’t realize it, but colors describe our personality. Artistic colors are always a gateway to mental figures. But these colors have something more in them, a sense of completion.
Suppose red, black, and white are our 3 emotions:
- Sadness
- Happiness, and
- Fear
With these 3 emotions create a (balance) in our lives.
All other emotions we feel are a product of these 3 primary emotions. In order to live a meaningful life, we must find a balance between these 3 emotions to their fullest.
2. The focal point of our brain —
- Gouache painting, invented in the mid 16 century, is a type of opaque painting.
Have you noticed artists throwing colors on canvas, making it completely white, and then making figures from scratch? Well, the artists are too unaware of what they will create.
Watercolor and gouache painting is the most challenging and complex painting technique in the world, after the realism painting technique of Leonardo da Vinci.
What excites readers to date is how a painting evokes different expressions in everyone. How does a simple painting make us feel guilty about our wrongdoings?
Leonardo once said:
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
The thought that Leonardo never meant to excel in a painting made him one.
Sometimes, in life, we focus more on the outcome than the real struggle. That’s why before we reach the outcome, we’re tired. Leo was quite the opposite of what we are.
For him, learning to live is to die. Accepting success is to accept defeat. One cannot simply stick with one end of the rope. Because you only learn to live when you chase death.
Marisa Donnelly, a contributor at ThoughtCatalog, expresses it:
“When you learn you are dying,
When you receive the diagnosis that changes everything,
When you discover your breaths are running out,
You suddenly learn how to live.”
3. The first step out of the cage is acceptance —
Michelangelo, a Renaissance sculptor, said:
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
As a Renaissance poet, he realized that non-living things are in lockup except for living things.
E.g., our minds, marbles, stones, etc.
In deep philosophy, objects carry a representation of living things, just like our minds.
We don’t know how but our mind is a prison of past, cultural values, and unstable financial conditions. Michelangelo believes the first step to set it free is to realize it’s in a cage.
Then, carve your mind to remove it from the cage.
Courtney E. Ackerman, Psychologist, writes:
“The first act of improvement is acceptance.”
There are millions of stones in our neighborhood. Pick one, maybe draw a design and carve it free.
Similarly, with your mind, detox it to set it free. We all know a philosopher and a great thinker lives in your mind, so don’t you dare harm it.
Just set it free.
Final thoughts:
Most people think philosophy is a fancy way of chasing death.
But we forget that we’re decadent of so-called ancestors of Mesopotamia and fighters, which means that we have those (genes) inside us to explore ourselves.
What we lack: a stubborn ego flame inside of us.
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