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I think I might become absorbed with my tomatoes in tough times as well. The divide between the work and the life is something a lot of critics can’t get past. The personal life is inconsequential compared to the achievement. From The Paris Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

What happened to your biography of Picasso?<\/p>\n

McCULLOUGH<\/p>\n

I quit. I didn\u2019t like him. I thought I would do him as an event, the Krakatoa of art. He changed the way we see; he changed the imagery of our time. But then I realized that strictly in terms of what would work for me, his wasn\u2019t an interesting life.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an old writer\u2019s adage: keep your hero in trouble. With Truman, for instance, that\u2019s never a problem, because he\u2019s always in trouble. Picasso, on the other hand, was immediately successful.<\/p>\n

Except for his painting and his love affairs, he lived a prosaic life. He was a communist, which presumably would be somewhat interesting, but during the Nazi occupation of Paris he seems to have been mainly concerned with his tomato plants.<\/p>\n

And then his son chains himself to the gate outside trying to get his father\u2019s attention; Picasso calls the police to have him taken away. He was an awful man.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think you have to love your subject\u2014initially you shouldn\u2019t\u2014but it\u2019s like picking a roommate. After all you\u2019re going to be with that person every day, maybe for years, and why subject yourself to someone you have no respect for or outright don\u2019t like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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