Picasso Quotes

154 Picasso quotes by 126 unique authors

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
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… — Reynolds Price
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics,… — Dino De Laurentiis
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… — Giovanni Ribisi
I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He… — Steve Sabol
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux. — Jeffrey Deitch
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole. — Jonathan Richman
You're the Picasso of pain. — Pat Benatar
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. — Danny Huston
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. — Anish Kapoor
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.… — Jean-Jacques Annaud
There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others. — Pablo Picasso
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… — Georges Braque
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… — Jean Cocteau
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… — Georges Braque
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… — Georges Braque
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… — John Berger
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… — David Hockney
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form. — Wassily Kandinsky
I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day… — Jacques Lipchitz

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