Picasso Quotes

154 Picasso quotes by 126 unique authors

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it… — Pablo Picasso
I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And… — Steve Martin
Look at Picasso. Oâ€™Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to… — Marisha Pessl
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of… — Milan Kundera
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. — Paul Johnson
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened. — Francoise Gilot
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone… — David Bailey
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern… — Joni Mitchell
I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it… — Richard Rogers
So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it. — David Douglas Duncan
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands… — David Douglas Duncan
Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can… — Andrew Ross Sorkin
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. — Brad Holland
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they… — John Hughes
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. — Alan Patrick Herbert
Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am… — Antonio Banderas
Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris. — Andre Leon Talley
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll… — Pablo Picasso
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford. — Pablo Picasso

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