If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.
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.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.
No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.