Pablo Picasso Quote by Geoffrey Jensen

A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos»…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Spain's past is a cut of meat turning green on the butcher's slab. When the war ended, people were forbidden to look back and…

— Jessie Burton

“And in a more general context, after World War I, many air force leaders had come to see civilians as legitimate targets, often advocating…

— Geoffrey Jensen

“When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his…

— Ingo F. Walther

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

— Marc Chagall

There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called…

— Hans Haacke

I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.

— Francoise Gilot

“Widespread violence against civilians also demonstrated that the Spanish Civil War was, sadly enough, not a unique case in modern history: such terror has…

— Geoffrey Jensen

“Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly: What began…

— Frederick Taylor

In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing…

— Nicholson Baker

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

— Pablo Picasso

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

— Robert Indiana