Artist Quote by Dries van Noten

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

— Frank Gehry

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

— Marc Chagall

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

— John Hurt

“Whenever Picasso learned how to do something, he abandoned it.”

— Austin Kleon

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our…

— Willem de Kooning

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to…

— Martin Filler

“he [Picasso] used to say quite often, paper lasts quite as well as paint and after all it all ages together, why not, and…

— Gertrude Stein

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

— Anthony Yarde

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso…

— Tom Peters

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…

— Roy Lichtenstein

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

— T Bone Burnett

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help…

— Madeleine L'Engle