Picasso Quotes
154 quotes by 126 authors
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...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
— Aretha Franklin
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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…
— Steven Pressfield
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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…
— James M. Cain
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If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.
— Michael Winner
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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…
— Slavoj Žižek
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The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few…
— Stanley Crouch
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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…
— Wayne Dyer
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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…
— Robert Wyatt
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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.
— Pablo Picasso
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I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts, from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,…
— Lebbeus Woods
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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…
— Tom Peters
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For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great…
— Martha Stewart
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I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
— Dick Bruna
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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…
— Max Lucado
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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…
— Steve Guttenberg
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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…
— Hugh Jackman
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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.…
— August Wilson
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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…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure…
— Gregory Bateson
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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…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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