The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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.
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
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.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.