You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
