Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside. — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“You have to admit that most women who do something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.” — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“What interests me is to set up what you might call the rapport de grand écart - the most unexpected relationship possible between the… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of… — Françoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature,… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“The heart of the problem, I soon came to understand, was that with Pablo there must always be a victor and a vanquished. I… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“Pablo bijaše uvijek zaokupljen ljubavnom postojanošću Aragona i Else. Činilo se da naročito s Aragonove strane postoji potpuna odanost, gotovo kult u kome ona… — Françoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
