Art Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“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

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

— Edvard Munch

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

— Jeff Bridges

“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

The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory…

— Ann Voskamp

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the…

— Paul Bettany

“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

I love the creation of these things—I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

— Guillermo del Toro

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

“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

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

— William T. Wiley

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto