Miro, A Just ManMiro was goodness, a just man in all things. He did not speak much but was

Miro, A Just Man

Miro was goodness, a just man in all things. He did not speak much but was very courteous. I never saw him with a camera or a ballpoint pen, but he would sometimes spend an hour contemplating the landscape. He and I were alone. I prudently kept my distance. He liked places that were difficult to get to, with a good view.

Francesco Sole, Miro's chauffeur during 25 years. Interview at ABC, in Spain, 1983.

Bernini on Women

Asked in the presence of many French ladies who were the more beautiful, the French or the Italians, he replied that all were very beautiful, but with this difference: that there was blood under the skin with the Italians, while with Frenchwomen there was milk.

F. Baldinucci, Vita del Cavaliere Glo. Lorenzo Bernino, 1681, from the 1846 edition of the Notizie.

Frida Kahlo

Why did Frida paint herself？ Her preferred exercise seems to have been shaping and perpetuating the image the mirror returned, enriched by her own art and imagination. On the other hand Frida herself answered this question by saying, "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone. Because I am the person I know best."

Espacio , Art Magazine 1983.

Degas

In the life of Degas, his famous painting, Danseuses a la barre sold for five hundred thousand francs. When Degas discovered this, he commented: "The painter who painted this is not necessarily an imbecile; but the person who paid five hundred thousand francs for this painting, is most definitely an idiot."

Anthology of Anecdotes, Noel Claraso, 1982.

Picasso on Drawing

Picasso said to me once with a good deal of bitterness, they say I can draw better than Raphael, and probably they are right, perhaps I do draw better but if I can draw as well as Raphael I have at least the right to choose my way and they should recognize it, but no, they say no.

G. Stein, Picasso, 1938.

Who was most likely an idiot, according to one of the following descriptions？

A．Miro, because he spoke little but was very courteous.

B．Bernini, because he divided women by skin and silk.

C．The person who bought the Degas' famous painting.

D．Those people do not recognize the talent of Picasso.