Sistine Chapel Quotes - Page 2

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

  Wade Davis

  Oil, Sacred, Chapel

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• 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

  Communication, Church, Trying

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• 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

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Teenreads Interview, www.teenreads.com. September 2006.

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