A Quote by Bill Lear

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

Bill Lear

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Bill Lear
American - Inventor
June 26, 1902 - May 14, 1978

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

Rita Mae Brown

Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns.

Oliviero Toscani

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

James Rosenquist

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

Edvard Munch

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

Edvard Munch

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Henry Adams

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Malcolm Cowley

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

Wade Davis

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

Peter Greenaway

Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.

Jon Favreau

When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling.

Adam West

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.