John Richardson > Quotes

“Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows...”
― John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932

“Designer Elsa Schiaparelli’s enormously popular perfume, Shocking, launched in 1937, was one of countless products to derive inspiration from surrealism, revealing how rapidly a movement that was rooted in radical Marxist and Freudian principles could degenerate, so far as its founders were concerned, into an eye-catching, mind-blowing gimmick of immense use to advertisers, fashion photographers, and moviemakers. Breton would be horrified by this development; Dalí delighted.”
― John Richardson, A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943