Art Quote by John Baxter

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

— Jean Cocteau

“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying.…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of…

— charles baudelaire

“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.”

— Jean-Michel Rene Souche

“Picasso has magical eyes. He sees the world so differently than we do, but he is able to make us understand what he sees.…

— Robert Sharenow

“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.”

— Graham Greene

“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”

— Roman Payne

“...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

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Art was the only woman Picasso loved.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.”

— Roman Payne

“You could drive whole regiments mad with your looks. Picasso is dying to paint you, with two noses and seven eyes.”

— Richard Bradford