Ambition Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

— Pablo Picasso

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did.…

— Antonio Banderas

When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But…

— Aristide Maillol

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

— Frank Gehry

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is…

— Roy Lichtenstein

“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

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in…

— Georges Braque

Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train…

— Don McLean

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

— John Hurt

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato…

— Francoise Gilot

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist…

— Francoise Gilot