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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling.
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.
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.
