Quotes About Life Picasso

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Pablo Picasso

#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. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. We were never meant to live life accumulating stuff. We were meant to live simply enjoying the experiences of life, the people of life, and the journey of life - not the things of life.

Joshua Becker

#9. Does man think that We will not assemble his bones? Yes [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips " .Quran The Resurrection 75

Qur'an

#10. We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

Viktor Yanukovych

#11. 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

#12. The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Michel De Montaigne

#13. My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

Pablo Picasso

#14. I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

Bruce Herschensohn

#19. 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

#20. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

#21. 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

#22. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

#23. My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

Ed Helms

#24. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Pablo Picasso

#25. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

#26. One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Pablo Picasso

#27. The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Pablo Picasso

#28. Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

Jerry Saltz

#29. I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

Rachel Joyce

#30. No matter what ailed you, a small glass of schnapps would take care of it at once. This particular remedy was so good my grandfather would frequently take the cure even before there was anything wrong with him.

Molly Picon

#31. Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

John Orloff

#32. Love is the greatest refreshment in life

Pablo Picasso

#33. When you're really young, you're young for life.

Pablo Picasso

#34. 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

#35. [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

#36. The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. 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