Art Quote by Miles J. Unger

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

— Miles J. Unger

“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

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my…

— Brian Bird

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...

— Auguste Rodin

“In essence, Ficino’s philosophy elevated the liberal arts, pure scientific research, and the centrality of the individual and his or her immortal soul’s redemption…

— Benjamin Blech

“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

“Almost exactly five hundred years ago, a tormented soul named Michelangelo built a very narrow bridge in the middle of the air in the…

— Benjamin Blech

“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to…

— Patti Smith

“The goal was to teach and spiritually transform its viewers. But in what way? We have already unveiled many of the artist’s secret messages…

— Benjamin Blech

“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

“If an artist of the caliber of Leonardo or Michelangelo was paid a hefty commission for a new private piece of art, that artwork…

— Benjamin Blech

“Michelangelo’s mistakes, frozen within testimony of concrete—what they suggest is that mistakes are, first and foremost, a by-product of the pursuit of excellence.”

— James L. Harmon