Visual artists can pack a punch as mean spirited as Floyd Mayweather just as good as the paintbrushes and pencils they use to make their masterpieces. Whether it’s Picasso and Giacometti or Banksy and Mr. Brainwash, visual artists are no strangers to slick comments about their contemporaries. It was Manet, who told his friend Claude Monet to tell Renoir to “give up painting.” And Picasso’s temper and critical words for other was well noted, just ask Getrude Stein. Here are some of the more outrageous and rude things artists have said about each other over time.
Pablo Picasso on Toulouse-Lautrec
“[He] was not an idiot, but merely a painter of the period who wouldn’t last.”
Degas on Seurat
“I wouldn’t have noticed [his work] except that it is so big.”
Willem de Kooning on Jackson Pollock
“He was out in the wilderness eating John Brown’s body.”
Jackson Pollock on Willem de Kooning
“[he's] a French painter.” Calling an artist French at this time was derogatory.
Michelangelo on Raphael
“Everything he knew, he learned from me.”
Banksy on Mr. Brainwash
“Most artists take years to develop their style, Thierry seemed to miss out on all those bits.”
Banksy on Mr. Brainwash
“There’s no one like Thierry, even though his art looks like everyone else’s.”
Banksy on Andy Warhol & Mr. Brainwash
“Warhol repeated iconic images until they became meaningless, but there was still something iconic about them. Thierry really makes them meaningless.”
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