A Quote by Jon Favreau

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

Jon Favreau

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Jon Favreau
American - Actor
Born: October 19, 1966

I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

Ursula K. Le Guin

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Francois Cavanna

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

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

Malcolm Cowley

When you're a kid, and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Noel Fielding

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Noel Fielding

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