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Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.