Picasso Quotes · Page 2

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

— Jonathan Richman

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

— Diego Rivera

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.

— Claude Picasso

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

— Marc Chagall

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

— David Hockney

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

— Andre Leon Talley

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

— T Bone Burnett

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

— Arshile Gorky

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

— Franz Marc

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso”

— Edward B. Burger

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

— Tracey Emin

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All…

— Pablo Picasso

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as…

— Francoise Gilot

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in…

— Agnes Varda

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made…

— Dries van Noten

“Look at the stars, look at the moon streaked in the water, look at the Picasso face in the sky that breathes…

— Ruth Boukhari

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and…

— Georges Braque

I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso.…

— Jacques Lipchitz

The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they…

— Georges Braque

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the…

— Norbert Wiener

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he…

— Gregory Bateson

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments…

— Steve Sabol

“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For…

— Francoise Gilot

“Ironically, I believe Picasso was right. I believe we could paint a better world if we learned to see it from all…

— Hannah Gadsby

We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the…

— Steve Sabol

I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line drawing of a horse. It almost…

— Phil Hartman

“Barry had done it with her, the girl I loved, and it had meant nothing to him; Tanya would die and no…

— James Franco

“Picasso’s eclecticism signifies the deliberate destruction of the unity of the personality; his imitations are protests against the cult of originality; his…

— Arnold Hauser

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

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

— Teddy Thompson

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

— Kenneth Koch

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

— Tony Bennett

“You know what Picasso says. ‘Bad artists copy, good artists steal.”

— Donna Tartt

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

— Robert Lyn Nelson

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

— Brad Holland

“But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself. -- Pablo Picasso”

— André Malraux

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work…

— Patti Smith

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good…

— Frank Stella

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows…

— Tucker Max