Picasso Quotes
154 quotes by 127 authors
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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
— David Bailey
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
— Candice Bergen
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Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
— Nicolas Cage
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I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
— Diego Rivera
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Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick,…
— Rajneesh
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Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas…
— Rajneesh
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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.
— Kanye West
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one…
— Milan Kundera
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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…
— William Zinsser
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There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very,…
— Yaacov Agam
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If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
— Juliet Stevenson
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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…
— Anna Torv
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I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get along well with…
— Usamaru Furuya
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We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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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.
— James Dickey
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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…
— Willem de Kooning
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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…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
— Salvador Dali
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
— Cyril Connolly
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
— Larry Ellison
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