It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.