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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.

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.

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

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.