Bison Quote by Werner Herzog

“[Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence…

— Marina Picasso

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

— Marc Chagall

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

— Michael Portillo

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older…

— Eric Hoffer

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

— Franz Kafka

If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem…

— Deborah Solomon

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the…

— John Berger

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

— Frank Gehry

“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

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have…

— H. R. Giger

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered…

— Maurice Denis

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical…

— Julian Schnabel