Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.
My first influence obviously was Picasso.
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso. " And I said, "Well, so what?
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things.
If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.
DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.
Fashion went from being much more rarefied to being more accessible. Now everything is changing in the art world, too: even the highest level of institutions are becoming more aware of the general public, like the McQueen exhibit at the Metropolitan or the Tim Burton at the MoMA or how the Gagosian does historic Picasso shows, bringing museum quality into a gallery. Galleries are becoming more like museums, and museums are becoming more accessible. In the next decade, I think it'll be blown open: there will be a lot of shifting around in terms of how artists approach their work.
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.