I think my favorite thing about Pablo Picasso was that he was kind of an asshole.

He was that rare thing for "great historical art dudes" which is to be famous in his own lifetime.

Which means that even his incidental doodles became extremely valuable

and people would bother him for these things, which though they were ultimately trivial for him, would create incredible fortunes from nothing at all.

This is the kind of thing that motivates for greed-- it seems fun, at first

but then you're trying to pay for dinner and everyone you ate with is about to get in a fistfight over the napkin you made little cat-faces on while waiting for your steak.

Like they don't care about you at all, what they care about it just

product

And he knew this to be factual

There's a lot of stories out there where he'd do just that, he'd go out to dinner and he'd draw with ballpoint pen on the back of his little paper placemat or whatever. Fill up the whole thing with these lovely composite pieces, just whatever he wante

and then shred it into confetti afterwards, while everyone gasped and moaned and tried not to cry about it

like, just setting money on fire in front of them

I love that.

If people make you into a commodity, if they care more about what you can do for them than for you yourself, take that and piss in it.

I remembered this story because I saw this image on Tumblr

pablo picasso doing a shitty nothing cat doodle complete with half-assed mouse, like the rest of us.

i like it

that's fantastic

i too like to watch the world burn