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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

I have never been much of a painter.

My paintings are rubbish.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.