…remember it's not the true map for all eternity and be ready to change it. And when you stop to think that there's a Picasso Statue in front of city hall in Chicago, it does seem that the world has mutated. What the hell is that Picasso Statue doing?…

…there's a Picasso Statue in front of city hall in Chicago, it does seem that the world has mutated. What the hell is that Picasso Statue doing? In Chicago where the mayor when I was living in Chicago, the mayor was a gangster named Richard Daly who was…

…were: there is no ghetto in Chicago and we're going to move everybody out of the ghetto. And yet they got this Picasso Statue which is a perfect example of multi model thinking. All of modern art Joyce's Ulysses, Citizen kane, every field of modern…

…of multi model thinking. All of modern art Joyce's Ulysses, Citizen kane, every field of modern art has this multiple vision but that Picasso Statue you walk around it and you see a great big Afghan Dog and you stand at another angle and you see a…

…deals with elmire the greatest art former of the 20th century. Once you read this book every time you see a Matisse or a Picasso you especially like you ask yourself: is that Matisse or is that elmire? And it deals with ulmo who I forgot to mention…

…seem to me. When I hear people arguing about whether Beethoven is better than Mozart, or is Van Gogh a better painter than Picasso, or is Thomas Wolfe a better novelist than William Faulkner I don't know what the hell they're talking about. All I can…

…don't know what the hell they're talking about. All I can talk about is how Beethoven and Mozart seem to me how Van Gogh and Picasso seem to me, how Thomas Wolfe and Faulkner seem to me. I don't know what any of this is. And so I formed the reformed…

…art experts of the western world to the extent that a thousand of his paintings are hanging in museums with names like Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Modigliani and so on. And Clifford Irving came up with a contract signed by Howard Hughes, which three…

…seem to me. When I hear people arguing about whether Beethoven is better than Mozart, or is Van Gogh a better painter than Picasso, or is Thomas Wolfe a better novelist than William Faulkner I don't know what the hell they're talking about. All I can…

…know what the hell they're talking about. All I can talk about is how Beethoven and Mozart seemed to me how Van Gogh and Picasso seemed to me, how Thomas Wolfe and Faulkner seemed to me. I don't know any is's. And so I formed the reformed druids, the…

…to create so many other great artists? Of course they were contemporary with d w Griffith who revolutionized film, and with Picasso who revolutionized painting and frank Lloyd Wright who revolutionized architecture. I suppose I would have to say it was the…

…had doubled for the first in 250 years where previously doublings took millenniums. By 1900, when they were all becoming mature Picasso, pound Joyce, Frank Lloyd Wright they were all either in their 20s or their late teens. The world was obviously so…

…obvious that we needed new kinds of art to Express our new apprehension of the new universe we were in. Specifically, Picasso started his cubist period after seeing African art in an exhibit put on by the anthropologist Leo Frobenius, who appears frequently…

…anthropologist Leo Frobenius, who appears frequently in pound's cantos because he turned pound on to African Poetry like he turned Picasso on to African painting. And Levi Bruhl the anthropologist is mentioned by name in Finnegan's wake and he's also quoted…

…several times if you really want to understand the man who probably was to literature what Einstein was to physics and what Picasso was to painting. Ezra pound. Ezra pound, the last lines pound ever wrote. I have tried to write a Paradise. Terrestrial…

…only problem was he put the wrong signatures on them. Instead of signing them Elmir, he signed them Van Gogh and cezanne and Picasso and names like that. This is known as art forgery. Now Elmir's claim is a signature doesn't make that much difference if…

…trust these people. They operate 99 on bluff. So now every time I go through an art museum and I see, let's say, a Picasso I especially like he specialized in Picasso's Early work the blue period. Every time I see a blue Picasso I really like I think…

…I see, let's say, a Picasso I especially like he specialized in Picasso's Early work the blue period. Every time I see a blue Picasso I really like I think jesus that's great. Is that a Picasso or an Elmir? My only answer is it's a Picasso maybe. And…

…Picasso's Early work the blue period. Every time I see a blue Picasso I really like I think jesus that's great. Is that a Picasso or an Elmir? My only answer is it's a Picasso maybe. And then his co the guy who wrote Elmir's Biography, cliff. His full…

…a blue Picasso I really like I think jesus that's great. Is that a Picasso or an Elmir? My only answer is it's a Picasso maybe. And then his co the guy who wrote Elmir's Biography, cliff. His full name was Clifford Irving and some of you may remember…

…got them on consignment I haven't paid yet I want you to authenticate them show me which ones are real and which are fakes. So Picasso started putting them in two piles: this is real, this is a fake this is real, this is real this is real this is a…

…minute, I was here the weekend you painted that that's not a fake. Pablo said it's a fake. I tell you I can fake a Picasso as well as any thief in Europe. Which makes me wonder sometimes when I've got to finish something on deadline as I send it in…

…to create so many other great artists? Of course they were contemporary with d w Griffith who revolutionized film and with Picasso who revolutionized painting, and frank Lloyd Wright who revolutionized architecture. I suppose I would have to say it was the…

…information had doubled for the first 250 years where previously doublings. Took millenniums. By 1900 when they were all becoming mature Picasso, pound Joyce, Frank Lloyd Wright they were all either in their 20s or their late teens. The world was obviously…

…obvious that we needed new kinds of art to Express our new apprehension of the new universe we were in. Specifically, Picasso started his cubist period after seeing African art in an exhibit put on by the anthropologist Leo Frobenius, who appears frequently…

…the anthropologist Leo Frobenius, who appears frequently in pound's cantos because he turned pound on to African Poetry, like he turned Picasso on to African painting. Levi Bruhl the anthropologist is mentioned by name in Finnegan's wake and so is sir James…

…remember it's not the true map for all eternity and be ready to change it. And when you stop to think that there's a Picasso Statue in front of city hall in Chicago, it does seem that the world has mutated. What the hell is that Picasso Statue doing…

…there's a Picasso Statue in front of city hall in Chicago, it does seem that the world has mutated. What the hell is that Picasso Statue doing in Chicago where the mayor? When I was living in Chicago the mayor was a gangster named Richard Daly who was…

…were: there is no ghetto in Chicago and we're going to move everybody out of the ghetto. And yet they got this Picasso Statue which is a perfect example of multi model thinking. All of modern art, Joyce's Ulysses, Citizen kane every field of modern…

…of multi model thinking. All of modern art, Joyce's Ulysses, Citizen kane every field of modern art has this multiple vision but that Picasso Statue you walk around it and you see a great big Afghan Dog and you stand at another angle and you see a…

…exercise I wasn't even planning to a Botticelli, a Leonardo, a Van Gogh, However you want to pronounce it a cezanne, a Picasso, a de Kooning, a Jackson Pollock, a Klein, an Oldenburg, Photos by Mapplethorpe. They're all different. They all had the courage…

…never have heard of Van Gogh. It's because he had the courage to paint in his own way that he became a classic. Picasso found his own way of seeing things. That is what makes them valuable and yet we've got reality police, self appointed reality police…

…since. So which makes you wonder how many of his performances were real Orson Welles and how many of them were fake Orson Welles. Picasso once was asked by an art dealer. I've been offered these paintings that are all supposed to be by you and I think…

…all supposed to be by you and I think some of them are forgeries when you look them over and separate out the forgeries so Picasso started stacking them up this is real this is real this is real this is a forgery this is real this is real this is…

…this is a forgery. And the dealer said: Pablo, wait that last one I was here the weekend you painted that that's not a forgery. Picasso said yes it is I can fake a Picasso as well as any thief in Europe. And you know that's a very insidious story. I…

…wait that last one I was here the weekend you painted that that's not a forgery. Picasso said yes it is I can fake a Picasso as well as any thief in Europe. And you know that's a very insidious story. I mean like Finnegan's attack on the use of…

…conventions and so on if you can't say what anything is you're thrown into a kind of Zen state and when you think about Picasso long enough saying that he can fake a Picasso as well as anybody else you end up in the predicament diamond that when I…

…what anything is you're thrown into a kind of Zen state and when you think about Picasso long enough saying that he can fake a Picasso as well as anybody else you end up in the predicament diamond that when I write something now I ask: is this a real…

…seem to me. When I hear people arguing about whether Beethoven is better than Mozart, or is Van Gogh a better painter than Picasso, or is Thomas Wolfe a better novelist than William Faulkner I don't know what the hell they're talking about. All I can…

…know what the hell they're talking about. All I can talk about is how Beethoven and Mozart seemed to me how Van Gogh and Picasso seemed to me, how Thomas Wolfe and Faulkner seemed to me. I don't know any is's. And so I formed the reformed druids, the…