Art Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays the creation…

— William Edgar

“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

“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

“Michael had learned the hard way that nothing good came from interfering in the affairs of the afterlife.”

— Jacqueline E. Smith

“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

“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

“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

“He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built…

— Rachel Joyce

“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

“God did not live in this church; these statues gave an image to nothingness. I was the supernatural in this cathedral. I was the…

— Anne Rice

“Meanwhile, back in the torture room, the cardinal is now being forced to bleed into a chalice and consecrate his own blood, not to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could be wrong,…

— Kristen Ashley