Top 40 Life With Picasso Quotes
#1. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends.
David Douglas Duncan
#2. I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin.
Zooey Deschanel
#3. I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.
Lydia Leonard
#4. A piece of space-dust falls on your head once every day ... With every breath, we inhale a bit of the story of our universe, our planet's past and future, the smells and stories of the world around us, even the seeds of life.
Pablo Picasso
#5. It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that."
"Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam.
"But I am going to Mordor."
"I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable by a journey through pain.
Cirilo F. Bautista
#8. Heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal's
Karen Marie Moning
#9. A divorce party
that's really better than a wedding party!
Nujood Ali
#10. In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
Pablo Picasso
#11. The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
Pablo Picasso
#12. They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for his art. Van Gogh and Picasso had troubled souls, but poor Steve Kaufman has been shot once, stabbed 3 times - all by women. That is a lot of drama for great art.
Robin Leach
#13. My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo Picasso
#14. Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#15. I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
#17. I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
Pablo Picasso
#18. Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.
Pablo Picasso
#19. I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.
Richard Rogers
#20. Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.
Alice Cooper
#21. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
#22. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
#23. Just after the Second World War Picasso bought a house in the South of France and paid for it with one still-life. Picasso has now in fact transcended the need for money. Whatever he wishes to own, he can acquire by drawing it. The truth has become a little like the fable of Midas.
John Berger
#24. When faith touches your heart, you can walk on water.
When fear pricks your soul, you can sink on land.
With a great mind, you can achieve countless things.
With a strong heart, you can achieve extraordinary things.
With a loving soul, you can achieve impossible things.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
#26. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
#27. One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso
#28. The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
Pablo Picasso
#29. Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
Jerry Saltz
#31. I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
Tucker Max
#32. The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#34. When you're really young, you're young for life.
Pablo Picasso
#35. Atom, you want to flee the sun?
Madman, give up!
You're a jar; fate's a stone-
kick against it, and you'l waste your wine.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#36. Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it ... myself included.
Pablo Picasso
#37. [Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
Agnes Varda
#38. Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?
Blue Balliett
#39. Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
