When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

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

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

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

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

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