Picasso Quotes

• What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Done
  • Shakespeare

• Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Cool
  • Sexy
  • Symmetry

• If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Interesting
  • Picture
  • Museum

• Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but getting them straight - you know, he's reached this $100million plateau that only a handful of other artists have reached, which puts him in the company of Cezanne, Klimt, Picasso, and such.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Great
  • Prices
  • Phenomenal

• I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Century
  • Picasso
  • Andy Warhol

• Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

  

  Charles James
  • Picasso
  • Brancusi
  • Shostakovich

• The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Failure
  • Artists
  • Newton

• Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Painter
  • Communist
  • Picasso

• More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Man
  • Face
  • Hitchcock

• I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Picasso

• Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to be seen by anyone. In a similar way, rowing practices are our sketchbooks, where we prepared our raceday masterpiece.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Ideas
  • Masterpieces
  • Sketchbooks

• There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Picasso

• Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Communist
  • Picasso

• What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.

  

  Yusaku Maezawa
  • Moon
  • Artists
  • Picasso

• If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious point. I don't know why people revolt when I point out that Rockwell painted the male figure and was interested in it.

  

  Deborah Solomon
  • Interested
  • Obvious
  • Painted

• Picasso.. ..the master.. ..being a master: 'I don't search, I find' a famous quote of Picasso, where he criticize the 'searching' artists ..the master, the mastery.. ..Producing, producing.. .He Picasso! only knows how to work, can’t do anything else. What lost souls!.. .The great risk is producing for its own sake. You must never force things. You just have to wait.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Search
  • Force
  • Artists

• I was with Cézanne for a long time, and now naturally I am with Picasso.

  

  Arshile Gorky
  • Long Time
  • Picasso
  • Cézanne

• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Ideas
  • Artists
  • Picasso

• I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Believe
  • Millions
  • Owning