47 Sistine Chapel Quotes
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Famous Sistine Chapel Quotes
The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God — Bran Ferren
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. — Neil Simon
Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice? — Mike Royko
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. — Gianni Versace
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church. — Edvard Munch
In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite. — Victor Borge
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. — Leonardo da Vinci
But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures. — John Muir
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond de Goncourt
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. — Alberto Giacometti
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa. — Dave Barry
Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names. — Chuck Palahniuk
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone
Chapel Quotes
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. — William Hooper
My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God. — Charles Spurgeon
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? — Jesse Helms
Take the money and run. — Woody Allen
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. — Russell Banks
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread. — M. F. K. Fisher
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. — Charles Studd
Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring. — Marco Pierre White
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. — M. F. K. Fisher
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill. — Andy Griffith
People Writing About Sistine Chapel
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson |
4234 | 36527 |
 Bran Ferren |
13 | 31 |
 Neil Simon |
51 | 440 |
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
699 | 7457 |
 Mike Royko |
30 | 650 |
 Gianni Versace |
42 | 791 |
More Sistine Chapel Quotes
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor — Edvard Munch
On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma. — Courtney Love
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
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
Fashion is everywhere. Everywhere! Flowers are fashion to me, the sky is fashion, my garden is fashion. My darling, the Sistine Chapel is fashion. — Anna Dello Russo
[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
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel. — Joe Queenan
Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel — Wade Davis
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
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
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. — Malcolm Cowley
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
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature. — Sean Lennon
While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew. — William Butler Yeats
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
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller. — Rita Mae Brown
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. — Peter Greenaway
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel? — Bill Lear
I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel. — Leonardo da Vinci
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it. — Brennan Manning
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