Fascinating, and intelligent woman. Only woman to leave Picasso.

Priceless

Ahead of her time.

Smart lady!

Very French. Very Artist. Very Wonderful!

Yes!

That was one of the annoying characteristics. I'm so glad she didn't play his game.

I doubt he has ever 'out clevered' anyone.

How so?

Well, it's so obvious for a mature person what kind of relationships are like this. Without him she'd be nobody. Without her he wouldn't flattered himself. A kind of transaction like plenty around.

Great woman and a painter, not a great painter, and her works have certainly never achieved the greatness, importance and a 'paradigm shift' in how we look at art Picasso's works have. Besides, nowhere does she claim Picasso disparaged her as an artist, only that they had a complex relationship (plus a 40 year age gap) where she gave as good as she got.

Of course it’s easy for you to say what you say, but let’s face it, she was the only woman that left Picasso. Let that sink in. Picasso was a great artist, but he used other people to his advantage as any other person who wants to reach to the top. Francoise was smart and she was talented.

Agreed.

TOTALLY SPOT ON. He's so irritating here.

A good interviewer always listens, he’s not bad he just doesn’t listen so well

I have read her book twice and loved it both times. This was my second time watching this interview also. So delightful to see such an intelligent, creative woman who always seems to have known who she was and stood her ground! A fun, enlightening interview.

Still alive! 98 years young now.

and *still* alive. she’s 99 now.

@Okiroshi she died

@Okiroshi why

2021 and shes still alive!

And lived longer !

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The one is a great painter, the other a clumsy, crude egomaniac of an interviewer. They’re in no way comparable.

Actually Charlie did his job... it was a great interview and it looks like she enjoyed it.

She is wonderful and I do not see the same thing said about Francoise Gilot cutting Charlie off. She is a woman who has lived through the unimaginable, she is brilliant, an excellent artist, with stories to tell. Why can't this female cut into Charlie when it is her story to tell not Charlie's. For a woman abused by Picasso and other men and over-powered by her dad as her male role model, she was strong and held her own. I am sad to see that she could not discern better the intimate abilities of her partners to support her own values. She is a lovely women. An honor to have access to Charlie interviewing her.

Picasso was a macho.

Well, it's so obvious for a mature person what kind of relationships are like this. Without him she'd be nobody. Without her he wouldn't flattered himself. A kind of transaction like plenty around.

Picasso was a man of his time who attracted beautiful women, but yes he was very cruel to the women in his life

Lisa Majersky yes...thats correct...spot on! She is absolutely committed to her work....right since the beginning...a true painter....(and an inspiration actually..)

Loved Charlie's interview, he was the best !

Most men at that time were chauvinistic women weren’t important

Picasso was a pervert and I suspect a kind of an obsessed maniac.

Who comes close to her today?

One exclamation point is sufficient, thank you very much.

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Yes, he kind of got on my nerves. I think he studied and was coached on how to talk intelligently to a painter. I kept asking myself what was wrong with this interview even though it was so interesting. He wasn't bad, but he wasn't THERE.

It started awkwardly with his pronouncing her name, "Francois". Later he asked her if the war was " the most exciting time " of her life, or some such stupid remark. Yikes.

@cubomania3 By many miles!

He listens to himself, in love with his own voice.

@@samyandkitty8399 Charlie Rose is interested in hearing stories about Picasso and Matisse, and doesn't really care about her work. That must happen to her a good deal, but she handles the slight with grace. I think, too, he's interested in her as a woman/muse/icon.

Spoke too soon. He is getting better as it goes along. He seems delighted when she finally says "exactly" in agreement. I imagine it would be a difficult interview.

Your reading of him is the same as mine.I noticed that he couldn't believe she no longer loved Picasso despite having two children with him. He simply didn't get it, that a woman didn't continue to need a famous man. I found him a ponderous bore, who often missed what she was saying because it didn't suit his view.

He doesn’t listen to her but immediately jumps to another subject missing the chance for real exchange. Dismissive imo.

@@julietholmesacourt Or is it Picasso's ego knows that she is young and she might lose interest in him. Francoise is wanting to focus on their children, and as a family that includes her parents (grandparents to her children), and PAINTING - then the relationship with Picasso is left behind.

Hello how're you doing?

Deviants never see themselves as deviant and often times they hate the deviance of others. It's a disease.

Deviants never see themselves as deviant and often times they hate the deviance of others. It's a disease.

@@jhb61249 Probably true.

Just because he’s abusive doesn’t mean he can’t be charming, that is how they draw women in. Narcissistic

ik kap me too.

shiningc323 oh my god you put it so well👏

I agree 100%. She grew into the Woman she was from her fathers grooming. He was an end to a need. He needed her,she admits she needed him. She is A strong woman through out her whole life. she's admirable.

You clearly know nothing about Picasso. He was a genius and not a spoil child. She gets interviews because she fucked Picasso seventy years ago. That's the giant of a man he was.

We know absolutely nothing about their life.picasso was the greatest painter of those past 100 years and totally creative until the end of a very long life...he has crossed many women like many others men...some of them were strong women,others not...he was not a monster,but a that level of genius, his art was the most important thing and it's normal and all those women knew it!

@Clink Roslam If he was so horrible why did so many people love him so much? He was absolutely adored by a myriad of men and women from the age he was a child, to when he was practically a peasant in Paris to when he became a celebrity. Like @ChritopherPena put it above, his level of genius is not something easy to cope with and you're judging someone of the early twentieth century with the morals and ethics of the 21st century. Sad you can't appreciate his art, otherwise you wouldn't say such silly things.

I can picture her expression as she said it. 👌👌👌👌👌