Pablo Picasso Quotes

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

Pablo Picasso

• Painter
• Good Idea
• Botch

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• Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Public
  • Hide
  • Twitter

• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Goal
  • Child

• I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Space
  • Dinosaurs
  • Extinct

• The fact that 'Honey, I'm Good' made such a splash and that people were catching it on radio, on Spotify, on Pandora, it's driving everybody to go hear the album.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Driving

• We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

  

  Blanche Lincoln
  • Work
  • Women
  • Society

• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  

  William Cowper
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Existence
  • Praise

• You must, said Benito Mussolini, accept “a life in which the individual, through the denial of himself, through the sacrifice of his own private interests . . . realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Individual

• I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.

  

  Aaron Rose
  • Interest
  • Conflict
  • Director

• 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
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Painting
  • Painter
  • Unless

• What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painter
  • Good Idea
  • Botch