Top 308 Picasso Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.
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.
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.
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.
...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.
Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?
I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
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.
When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be.
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.
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.
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.
I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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.
I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.
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.
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.
I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.
The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.
Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
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.
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
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.
You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.
That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.
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.
Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.
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.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Pablo Picasso was generous. But he always signed and dedicated his gifts even when he knew that people would sell them because they needed the money.
Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
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.
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.
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.
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.
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.
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.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things.