Picasso Quotes
154 Picasso quotes by 126 unique authors
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When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those…
— Aristide Maillol
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If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
— Arshile Gorky
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Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try…
— Steve Jobs
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The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too.
— Steve Jobs
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Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting…
— Joe Bradley
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I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then…
— Henry Louis Gates
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More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
— Sean Connery
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Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.
— Alice Cooper
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I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the…
— Marianne Faithfull
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I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe…
— Lupe Fiasco
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I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be…
— Lupe Fiasco
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
— Hugh Hefner
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
— A. P. Herbert
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
— Damien Hirst
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
— David Hockney
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
— David Hockney
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
— David Hockney
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I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want…
— Elton John
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.'…
— Pablo Picasso
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