Pablo Picasso Quotes
We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.Pablo Picasso
Quotes to Explore
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen -
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann -
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
Captain Beefheart -
I will keep painting until I die.
Yayoi Kusama -
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
Damien Hirst -
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
Camilla Belle
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx -
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin -
Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
Fat Joe -
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
Gail Carson Levine -
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
Caio Fonseca -
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock -
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
Laura Mennell -
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso -
Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Kandinsky points out in his book On the Spiritual in Art that Theosophy (in its true sense; not as it generally appears) is yet another expression of the same spiritual movement which we are now seeing in painting.
Piet Mondrian -
Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
Francis Bacon -
When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
Damian Loeb -
So long as men hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It - there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations.
Ayn Rand -
How do you establish online friends by talking about the weather?
Nancy Willard -
We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.
Pablo Picasso