Art Quote by Bill Lear Download Open image “Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?” — Bill Lear ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Chapel Five Hundred Men Sistine chapel
Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be… — Neil Simon 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
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. — Malcolm Cowley 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, I say:… — Gianni Versace 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 and overdone.… — Benjamin Blech 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 vulgar train… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. — Banksy Copy Share Image
“sit well with Michelangelo. The project seemed like a series of insurmountable challenges: •It would be the largest fresco on earth—there would be more… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The ambitious pope had already discussed the Sistine ceiling with Michelangelo in 1506, probably while they were together in Bologna. No doubt Julius, an… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business. — Bill Lear Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. — Bill Lear Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
