“If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn’t be as worthwhile an art form as anything on Earth?”— Stan Lee, upress.state.ms.us
“Cardinal Campeggio: Michelangelo?! That was him?! Pope Paul III: That was him. We forgive him, because he is a genius... whatever that means.”— Michael Hirst, Pope Paul III, Peter O'Toole, imdb.com
“I think of Pelé as a gift of God. We have billions of billions of people in the world, and we have one Beethoven, one Bach, one Michelangelo, one Pelé. That is the gift of God.”— Pele, theguardian.com