The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
My first influence obviously was Picasso.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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.
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Who isn't fascinated by evil?