Sistine Chapel Quotes

Have you seen the Vatican wall? It's over 50-feet high. It's over 50-feet high. It's not even the kind of wall [Donald] Trump's talking about building.

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

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

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?

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

I've been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

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

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

I really loved Michelangelo. I've always been a little partial to Donatello to be honest, especially with the animated series. There's just something about Donnie that I really like. But, you know, Mikey's also Mikey. It's kind of just a given he's the most fun one.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

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

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.