[nsimoneaux]

"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care."

On the first moon landing, quoted in The New York Times, (1969-07-21).

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Curious about his feelings regarding this work. (I find it beautiful.)

[JoeAltmaier]

Funny! That's exactly how I think of Picasso's work.

[prawn]

Have you seen Guernica in Madrid?

[RBerenguel]

Or for that matter, his "training period" works. I'm not a fan of abstract (Guernica, of course, is a symbol) and he was a very fine painter even taking off the weird eyes-out-of-face stuff he did (which is not to say it is bad, but it's not my style).

[mildbow]

I have. And I still echo joe's comment.

[drzaiusapelord]

Jesus what a curmudgeon. I love how solidly he bought into the whole pretentious modern 'artiste' personality that is still being emulated today. I guess having a world weary 'fuck you' attitude is probably the social signaling you need to do to get your stuff into high-end galleries.

[scrumper]

Did he buy in, or was he the source? A bit like how you can hear Chuck Yaeger in every US airline pilot's calm drawl.

[drzaiusapelord]

European bohemianism predates Picasso. I've always assumed that attitude was just another flavor of bohemianism.

[tripzilch]

have you read other quotes about the moon landing? in terms of pretentiousness this is rather mild, he didn't even try to speak for "mankind" or "all the people on this earth".

[drzaiusapelord]

Actually he was a communist and painted portraits of Stalin. I suspect this was just a case of sour grapes.

[onetwotree]

Haha the guy was a really top notch troll.