“If you were like him, you would be a great artist.”

In Francoise Gilot’s Life with Picasso she tells of how another of Picasso’s ex-lovers used to write huge letters haranguing him everyday, when she wasn’t stalking him. And she would often include a picture of Rembrandt and write, “If you were like him, you would be a great artist.” Gilot says this used to trouble Picasso a lot. But it sounds like it would be a useful service to everyone.