It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Adam'e arm reaching towards God. When I first stood in the Sistine Chapel I wondered if Michelangelo was aware of his blasphemy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art,… — Gianni Versace Copy Share Image
“Had you ‘artists’ had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
It has always been difficult to get very close to the spirit of the Sistine Chapel; now that it is cleaned, it… — Nigel McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays… — William Edgar Copy Share Image
Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
“There are absolute masterpieces that move us intensely: Mozart's Requiem, Homer's Odyssey, the Sistine Chapel, King Lear. To fully appreciate their brilliance… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics.… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“There was even a third person to deal with, as far as anything that took place in the Sistine Chapel. He was… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there?… — George N. Atiyeh Copy Share Image
“Have you seen what Gio’s wearing? Is it tights? Please tell me it’s tights.” “Should it weird me out that you want… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
“Although 'to paint' means something like "to cause to be covered with paint," one does not 'paint a brush' when one dips… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Zeus…,” Langdon declared, his voice powerful. “The god of all gods. The most feared and revered of all the pagan deities. Zeus,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“There is so much information and decoration that this, the world’s largest fresco painting at about twelve thousand square feet, seems overstuffed… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“A journey is an adventure. Henry Miller said that it is far more important to discover a church no one has heard… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“SUCCESS, IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID, means different things to different people. Measured by the throngs of visitors who are moved to… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“To Giovanni da Pistoia Michelangelo, translated from the Italian by Joel Agee | 144 words (On painting the vault of the Sistine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Fashion is everywhere. Everywhere! Flowers are fashion to me, the sky is fashion, my garden is fashion. My darling, the Sistine Chapel… — Anna Dello Russo Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
“Now I know how Michelangelo felt. Only he ended up with the Sistine Chapel and I got a sooty ceiling in a… — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the… — Adam West Copy Share Image
“The girl's the Michelangelo of torture. She'd paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with a scalpel.She is so ruthlessly skilled, she'll… — Morgan Chalfant Copy Share Image
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image