Picasso Quotes

154 Picasso quotes by 126 unique authors

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, â€œDo you ever know what the birds are singing? You donâ€™t. But you listen to… — Marina Abramovic
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why. — Hugh Newell Jacobsen
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with â€œmodern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? — Duke Ellington
Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso. — Woody Allen
Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is. — Donald Trump
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at… — Anselm Kiefer
The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one… — Georges Braque
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me â€” two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they… — Rodney Crowell
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a… — Julio Iglesias
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous,"… — Joan D. Chittister
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but… — Gertrude Stein
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths. — Jean Cocteau
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your memâ€™ries, Picasso your dreams. — Robert Breault
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control… — James A. Baldwin
Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes. — Franz Kafka
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would… — David Chase
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related… — Roy Lichtenstein
Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even… — Roy Lichtenstein

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