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“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold acquisition of…

— Michael Ennis

“You want to become aware of your thoughts and choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are…

— Rhonda Byrne

“I grab the bag and dart into the bathroom away from the unnerving proximity of naked Christian. Michelangelo’s David has nothing on him.”

— E.L. James

“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

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

— Miles J. Unger

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away…

— Michelangelo

“There is a story told about the sculptor Michelangelo. As he was chiseling the statue David out of a huge marble block, a young…

— Jeff Wheeler

“In The Last Judgment, just as Mary is turning away from the severe judgment of Jesus, there is a deeper meaning: Michelangelo is symbolically…

— Benjamin Blech

“In Jewish tradition, we find the cautionary adage “Be in the world, but not of the world.” In the Gospels, Jesus says: “Render unto…

— 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

“I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous…

— Philippa Gregory

“No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references,…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist