Rick Brettell: Picasso always recognized that his main problem was that he was too talented, it was too easy. That’s why Picasso himself, in the end, disliked the so-called Rose period or Blue Period --because it was too sentimental and, you know, too easy to make and too easy to like.

Yve-Alain Bois: Picasso spoke several times about the fact that he had painted so many bad paintings. And he said it didn’t matter…He didn’t feel compelled to destroy them. He did destroy a couple of real turkeys, but in the end, you know, he didn’t edit that much.

Rick Brettell: With Picasso, you don’t see fifty drawings, forty-nine of which are eventually torn up. You see forty-nine different drawings. Each one is a theme in variation.

Yve-Alain Bois: When Picasso made a series of paintings, he always said that the painting he preferred was the one before the last, where things were not quite perfect yet, when he knew there was still something to do.

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