Picasso Quotes

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. (Pablo Picasso)
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso. View quote
Pablo Picasso
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. View quote
Roy Lichtenstein
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. View quote
André Malraux
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. View quote
Rita Rudner
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. View quote
A. P. Herbert
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. View quote
Dick Bruna
My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz - everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. (Evelyn Waugh)
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn't have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and many others, India belongs only to me. View quote
Amrita Sher-Gil
I would say that it was 'poetry' which distinguishes the cubist paintings which Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting which those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically. View quote
Georges Braque
If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives. View quote
Georges Braque
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipathic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cézanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this.... scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. View quote
Georges Braque
I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker. View quote
Pauline Kael
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people. View quote
David Chase
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you. View quote
Dino De Laurentiis
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)
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. View quote
Jonathan Richman
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. View quote
Juliet Stevenson
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. View quote
Kenneth Koch
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. View quote
Robert Wyatt