Top 100 Picasso Picasso Quotes
#2. 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 Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
John Berger
#3. Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.
Pablo Picasso
#4. Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.
Antonio Banderas
#6. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
Pablo Picasso
#7. Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.
Peter Schjeldahl
#8. For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
Pablo Picasso
#9. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
#10. I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
Adam Ant
#11. There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
Danny Huston
#12. A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell.
Steve Martin
#13. One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso
#14. Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.
Clement Greenberg
#15. I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso
#17. Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
Jerry Saltz
#18. Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
Kenneth Koch
#20. I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
Pablo Picasso
#21. Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
#22. The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.
Georges Braque
#23. I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso
#24. One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso
#25. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
#26. The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
Pablo Picasso
#28. I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
#29. When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his personal response to his approaching death.
Ingo F. Walther
#30. I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
Sebastian Horsley
#33. '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 and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them.
Francoise Gilot
#34. If Picasso drips, I drip ... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
Arshile Gorky
#35. When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.
Pablo Picasso
#36. Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
Jerry Saltz
#37. Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.
Francis Bacon
#38. In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.
Rokia Traore
#39. Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.
Pablo Picasso
#40. To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso
#41. You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
Pablo Picasso
#43. I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
Pablo Picasso
#44. 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
#45. There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
Pablo Picasso
#46. It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.
Pablo Picasso
#47. To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.
Pablo Picasso
#48. Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein
#49. It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
Patsy Asuncion
#50. Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso
#51. I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
Amrita Sher-Gil
#52. Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
Paloma Picasso
#53. 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
#55. If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
Pablo Picasso
#56. Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
Pablo Picasso
#58. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
#59. For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.
Rene Burri
#60. Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
Pablo Picasso
#61. The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.
Reynolds Price
#62. Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.
Amy Poehler
#63. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
#64. Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
Pablo Picasso
#65. From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
Pablo Picasso
#66. 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
#67. You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.
Tom Peters
#68. I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
Pablo Picasso
#69. The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort
Clement Greenberg
#70. You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.
Philip Larkin
#71. Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
Pablo Picasso
#72. For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
Pablo Picasso
#73. I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
Sarah Hall
#74. Rhythm is a perception of time ... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
Pablo Picasso
#75. Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
Pablo Picasso
#76. Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.
Pablo Picasso
#77. If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
Brad Holland
#78. To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
Pablo Picasso
#79. There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
Jeffrey Deitch
#80. Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
Pablo Picasso
#81. 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 myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.
Francoise Gilot
#82. Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
Pablo Picasso
#83. Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
Madonna Ciccone
#84. There are more copies than originals among people.
Pablo Picasso
#85. I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.
Paloma Picasso
#86. What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
Pablo Picasso
#87. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
Pablo Picasso
#88. The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
Pablo Picasso
#90. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
#91. Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)
Jimmy Fallon
#92. Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
Pablo Picasso
#93. Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel - only worse.
Anonymous
#94. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
#95. The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
Pablo Picasso
#96. If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
#98. Whenever Picasso learned how to do something, he abandoned it.
Austin Kleon
#99. Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.
Marisha Pessl
#100. If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.
Andre Breton
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