Quotes about Picasso

You're the Picasso of pain. Votes: 3

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom. Votes: 3

DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop. Votes: 3

My first influence obviously was Picasso. Votes: 3

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole. Votes: 3

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I. Votes: 3

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame. Votes: 3

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso. Votes: 3

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly. Votes: 3

I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do. Votes: 3

My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces. Votes: 3

I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso. Votes: 3

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. Votes: 3

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso. Votes: 3

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. Votes: 3

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways. Votes: 3

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. Votes: 3

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris. Votes: 3

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. Votes: 3

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. Votes: 3

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. Votes: 3

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. Votes: 3

I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened. Votes: 3

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. Votes: 3

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. Votes: 3

When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be. Votes: 3

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. Votes: 3

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. Votes: 3

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now. Votes: 3

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m. Votes: 3

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me. Votes: 3

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso. Votes: 3

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about. Votes: 3

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting. Votes: 3

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams. Votes: 3

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths. Votes: 3

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. Votes: 3

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. Votes: 3

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. Votes: 3

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? Votes: 3

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape? Votes: 3

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. Votes: 3

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso Votes: 3

Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint. Votes: 3

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. Votes: 3

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso. Votes: 3

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. Votes: 3

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries. Votes: 3

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place. Votes: 3

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. Votes: 3

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. Votes: 3

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece. Votes: 3

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. Votes: 3

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes. Votes: 3

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is. Votes: 3

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain. Votes: 3

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism. Votes: 3

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form. Votes: 3

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough. Votes: 3

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. Votes: 3

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. Votes: 3

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that. Votes: 3

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things. Votes: 3

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) Votes: 3

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux. Votes: 3

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown. Votes: 3

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem. Votes: 3

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. Votes: 3

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation. Votes: 3

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too. Votes: 3

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. Votes: 3

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why. Votes: 3

I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart. Votes: 3

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' Votes: 3

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids. Votes: 3

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes. Votes: 3

You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better. Votes: 3

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'. Votes: 3

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me. Votes: 3

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso. Votes: 3

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands. Votes: 3

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? Votes: 3

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had. Votes: 3

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value. Votes: 3

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures. Votes: 3

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth. Votes: 3

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures. Votes: 3

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives. Votes: 3

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway. Votes: 3

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy. Votes: 3

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century. Votes: 3

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. Votes: 3

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris. Votes: 3

Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands. Votes: 3

Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work. Votes: 3

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept. Votes: 3

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. Votes: 3

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart. Votes: 3

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. Votes: 3

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. Votes: 3

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. Votes: 3

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it. Votes: 3

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share"”he cannot help it"”what he has found. Votes: 3

I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what? Votes: 3

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential. Votes: 3

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on. Votes: 3

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail. Votes: 3

When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile. Votes: 3

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats. Votes: 3

I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb. Votes: 3

Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb. Votes: 3

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form. Votes: 3

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it. Votes: 3

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight. Votes: 3

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful. Votes: 3

Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars. Votes: 3

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known. Votes: 3

Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically. Votes: 3

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral. Votes: 3

A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully. Votes: 3

Bowling has the problem of wildly differing methods so that placing Wasim Akram against Bishan Bedi is rather like hanging a Rembrandt next to a Picasso and trying to produce a valid comparison. Votes: 3

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. Votes: 3

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out. Votes: 3

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me "” two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought. Votes: 3

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real? Votes: 3

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker. Votes: 3

Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso. Votes: 3

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God. Votes: 3

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said. Votes: 3

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca. Votes: 3

I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then. Votes: 3

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends. Votes: 3

[I'm] a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste. Votes: 3

The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form. Votes: 3

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art. Votes: 3

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice. Votes: 3

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love. Votes: 3

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. Votes: 3

When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much. Votes: 3

I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same. Votes: 3

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso. Votes: 3

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh. Votes: 3

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you. Votes: 3

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first. Votes: 3

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. Votes: 3

The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain. Votes: 3

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again. Votes: 3

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, "Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway." So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look. Votes: 3

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born. Votes: 3

[Pablo]Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did. Votes: 3

Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit. Votes: 3

I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what it would be like to have a room full of school children explore Picasso's approach to making art. Votes: 3

I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids. Votes: 3

Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach and Picasso didn't spring full-blown as Bach or Picasso; they needed models. This is especially true of writing. Votes: 3

Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting then it must be serious. I think Picasso can be hilarious, to name one example. Votes: 3

You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso. Votes: 3

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors. Votes: 3

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. Votes: 3

A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia. Votes: 3

And then, anger gave way to pure and simple job satisfaction. I mean, when I looked at a dead zombie head on a spike, I thought, "Hey, I did that. Picasso would have been proud. Especially how I rearranged that eye Votes: 3

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold. Votes: 3

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. Votes: 3

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort Votes: 3

I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. Votes: 3

Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone off the street added some brush strokes to a Picasso painting or changed the lyrics to a Dylan song." Votes: 3

Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them. Votes: 3

Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone off the street added some brush strokes to a Picasso painting or changed the lyrics to a Dylan song. Votes: 3

Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to be seen by anyone. In a similar way, rowing practices are our sketchbooks, where we prepared our raceday masterpiece. Votes: 3

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz. Votes: 3

His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. . . ." Votes: 3

A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!» Votes: 3

In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing. Votes: 3

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself. Votes: 3

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow. Votes: 3

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be. Votes: 3

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints. Votes: 3

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own. Votes: 3

Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you've lost your passion, or that you can't identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true. Votes: 3

Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line. Votes: 3

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. Votes: 3

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments. Votes: 3

You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect. Votes: 3

It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking rocket science. These must be the same people who hate Picasso, because he couldn't keep the paint inside the lines and the colors never matched the numbers. Votes: 3

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' Votes: 3

There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others. Votes: 3

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. Votes: 3

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. Votes: 3

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Votes: 3

Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine. Votes: 2

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible. Votes: 1

In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition. Votes: 1

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself. Votes: 1

Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore. Votes: 1

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me. Votes: 1

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. Votes: 1

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people. Votes: 1

Good artists copy; great artists steal. Votes: 1

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. Votes: 1

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. Votes: 1

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. Votes: 1