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Picture Quotes by Pablo Picasso
- What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
- I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that…
- When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several…
- The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.
- It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter…
- You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that…
- Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my…
- By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has…
- A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
- A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
- The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.…
- A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
- People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has…
- I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green…
- To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it…
- Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
More Picture Quotes
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to… — Dave Attell
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- I start a picture and I finish it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. — Ambrose Bierce
- I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing… — Bjork
- Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one… — Aeschylus
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus