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Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

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

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.