Picasso Quotes

154 Picasso quotes by 126 unique authors

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso — Aretha Franklin
Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long.Â You may think youâ€™ve lost your passion, or that… — Steven Pressfield
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
If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso. — Michael Winner
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist Â«chaosÂ» of… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. — Dick Bruna
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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