In no way would I compare myself to the man, but allow me to cite his name to make a point. I once went to the Vatican to see Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. I was overwhelmed by the feeling that before he started painting, no one had articulated and depicted human pathos with such clarity. Pathos had always existed, but Michelangelo was the first to really express it. Since then we
