Picasso Quotes

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
Time Myself Great You Memories Duty Great Career Spent Those About Picasso Had Know Talk Because Artist Done Going Just Just Because Here Career
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened. Francoise Gilot
Met Nothing Think Would Picasso Had Happened Really Peacetime
'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
You Words About Only Write Picasso Had He Aristotle Like Because Said Taught After Little Them Plato Socrates
Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel? If our test cases are the likes of Wagner, Picasso, and, let me say, Dickens, the answer is a resounding yes. Fred Kaplan
Great Family Me Emotions Great Artist Resounding Our Say Harsh Cases Picasso Likes Answer Test Wagner His Dickens Yes Scoundrel Artist Grasping Vindictive Violent
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
Myself Me Care Long Once Picasso Does Influence Who
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice. Giovanni Ribisi
Myself Me You Injustice Yourself Seriously Every Too Otherwise Honing Consider About Picasso Taking Himself Aesthetic Doing Craft Artist Just Want Should Acting Keep
When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony. Hubert de Givenchy
Best You Creativity Harmony See Picasso Interests
I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me. Irving Stone
Me School Old Brilliant Down Painting Design Guess Find Marvelous Color Layers Through Picasso Like Content Came Began Any Human Stop Old School Successfully
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Matter Whatever Creation Paris Picasso He Simply Ideal French Him Because Does His Sell Surrounding Influences Place Spanish Painted Painter Chose
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
People Money Value Van See Picasso New Look Houses Content Equate Auction Gogh Scream Capital Inherently Now
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. Jerry Saltz
Life Passion Out Thrill Uncertainty Mystery Never Picasso Ended Turns
I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb. Jessi Klein
World Mouth Painting Every Sick Evoking Picasso Crumb Proust Goes Sculpture Who Novel Each Need
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things. Jill Scott
Before Own Those Picasso Wrote Died List Things
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on. John Hughes
Heroes Medium John John Lennon Point Picasso Particular Comfortable Because Always Got Were Moved Moved On Where Dylan Lennon Forward Each
When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly. John Lithgow
Me Experience Remember Old Uncle National Visit Would Vividly Rembrandt Picasso Go Years Aunt Just Gallery Washington
Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it. Jonathan Richman
Sometimes Long Lately Hospital Picasso Feel Like Been Lot Works Playing
You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame. Joss Whedon
Love Buy You Frame Picasso Because
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. Juliet Stevenson
Work Van Van Gogh Would Could Picasso Wall Sitting Gogh Any Artist Room If I Could
After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso. Keith Gessen
World Jazz Picasso Lifted Toward Moscow Exhibit Ernest Hemingway Ban Began Died Soviet Soviet Union After Again Stalin Union Works Hemingway Published Museum
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. Kenneth Koch
Own Once Picasso Said Being Should Connoisseur
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London. Marianne Faithfull
Good Me Mother Big Reading Think Too Andy Andy Warhol London Trips Picasso Taking Like Retrospective Cultural Very Tate Sixties Warhol Lived Things
Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book. Martin Filler
Book Gift Mind Black Made First Build Composition About Superhuman Objects Outlining Potential Color Pursuing Coloring Lazy Picasso Put Him Unusual Might Then Manner Full Full Potential Figures Filling
Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old. Michael Portillo
Old First Entered About Picasso Boy Years Eight Consciousness
My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear's a bit bigger than my left - which showed up particularly in school photographs - so my mother used to call me her 'little Picasso.' Michael Portillo
Me Eyes School Mother Bit Photographs Picasso Particularly Call Left Up Than Different Bigger Which Little Different Levels Used Her Right Ear Levels
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. Octavio Paz
Time Speed Our Distant Once Ancestors Neighbor Posterity Archaic Picasso He Him Without Permits Go Going Happen Happening Places Centuries Next-Door Neighbor Now Letting Letting Go Belong Here Two
People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but he was my father. I didn't have another. Paloma Picasso
People Father Daughter Extravagant Say People Say Seems Picasso He Another Very Oh Vibrant Special
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