Buttons Quote by Thomas Roma

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to…

— Jean Cocteau

I listened to the opera the other day, and it gave me a surprising insight into the reason why someone would invent a device…

— Cellan Slarcas

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

— Banksy

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

— Barbara Steele

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments,…

— Brett Weston

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters…

— Pranav Mistry

“When he was creating this picture, Leonardo da Vinci encountered a serious problem: he had to depict Good - in the person of Jesus…

— Paulo Coelho

“Yet another strategy for encoding in Renaissance works involved environmental “special effects.” Messages were ingeniously inserted so that they could be viewed only when…

— Benjamin Blech

How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist…

— Jack Kerouac

“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“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