Art Quote by Benjamin Blech

“With his genius, Michelangelo built many bridges of the spirit.”

— Benjamin Blech

“Thus, Michelangelo filled the chapel with hidden messages of his passionate loves and his righteous rages, along with mystic symbols of divine justice and…

— Benjamin Blech

“Let’s start with Michelangelo’s predecessors. What did they want the chapel to say, and what relevance, if any, do these ideas still have today?”

— Benjamin Blech

“When Michelangelo came along a generation after the original fresco masters, he took on the almost-impossible task of linking the whole Sistine Chapel together.…

— Benjamin Blech

“Michelangelo was aiming with his frescoes, we modestly suggest that if he had dared to give the giant artwork a title he might have…

— Benjamin Blech

“...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.”

— Miles J. Unger

“Michelangelo, who had already spent much time studying Roman architecture in the ruins, proposed a revolutionary “flying bow bridge” scaffold. It was based on…

— Benjamin Blech

“I spent all day wandering up and down the hallways, staring at the Mona Lisa and Canova’s 'Psyche and Cupid' and the 'Venus de…

— Jonathan Hull

“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would…

— Douglas Adams

“Now I know how Michelangelo felt. Only he ended up with the Sistine Chapel and I got a sooty ceiling in a minor mansion…

— Shelley Noble

“It is likely that this very maelstrom of conflicted impulses is what has foiled all previous attempts to come up with a “unified theory”…

— Benjamin Blech

“In essence, Ficino’s philosophy elevated the liberal arts, pure scientific research, and the centrality of the individual and his or her immortal soul’s redemption…

— Benjamin Blech