Books Quote by Benjamin Blech

“So what was Michelangelo’s real message? “SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST”? A more profound and legitimate explanation of the Sistine is that perhaps it is…

— Benjamin Blech

“To assess the success of the Sistine, we must think in terms of its history, its prime architects, and its contemporary relevance. What was…

— Benjamin Blech

“words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like…

— Antonio Muxf1oz Molina

“Yet, to view the Sistine primarily as a self-portrait doesn’t ring totally true. In spite of his arrogance regarding his artistic skill, Michelangelo was…

— Benjamin Blech

“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood or sat…

— Benjamin Blech

“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except to the…

— Benjamin Blech

“What, then, is the unifying theme, if any, of these four different corner panels that might account for their selection by Michelangelo? The obvious…

— Benjamin Blech

“Michelangelo’s mistakes, frozen within testimony of concrete—what they suggest is that mistakes are, first and foremost, a by-product of the pursuit of excellence.”

— James L. Harmon

“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

“... They are to be stacked like logs, or thrown on a pyre, in the center of Paris,' Michelangelo explained. 'And they will be…

— Adam Gidwitz

“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at…

— T.K. Naliaka