A Quote by Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
American - Writer
Born: November 28, 1944

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Neil Simon

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

Bill Lear

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

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

Banksy

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

Jon Favreau

You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.

George N. Atiyeh

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

Greg Kinnear

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

Neil Simon

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

I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

Banksy

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