One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.