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

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.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

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.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

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.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

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.