Monday, August 3, 2009

Goethe: German Writer

Writing in his travel journal about his visit to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel in 1787.

"...until you have seen the Sistine Chapel, you have no adequate conception of what man is capable of accomplishing. One hears and reads of so many great and worthy people, but here, above one's head and before ones's eyes, is living evidence of what one man has done."