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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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 -
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
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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 -
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
Ramez Naam -
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue -
Never take anything for granted.
Benjamin Disraeli -
There's no such thing as trends. There's no such thing as style, even. It's just whatever you feel.
Zendaya -
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
J. B. Priestley -
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