A Quote by Malcolm Cowley

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

Malcolm Cowley

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Malcolm Cowley
American - Critic
August 24, 1898 - March 27, 1989

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Jon Favreau

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

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

Bill Lear

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

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

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

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

Antonin Scalia

Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.