Been Quote by Malcolm Cowley

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

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

— Irving Sandler

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

— Bill Lear

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

“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

“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

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

— Rob Long

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

— Robert Rauschenberg

“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

“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

Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.

— Edward Ruscha