Quotes of: Pablo-picasso Keyword

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Barnett Newman

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

Bridget Riley

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Bridget Riley

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Bridget Riley

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

Bruno Tonioli

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

Bruno Tonioli

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Beatrice Wood

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

Beatrice Wood

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

Camille Claudel

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.

Chuck Close

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

Gustav Klimt

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.

Graeme Murphy

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

Gerhard Richter

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

Hasan M. Elahi

You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

Hasan M. Elahi

When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

H. R. Giger

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Howard Hodgkin

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Howard Hodgkin

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Henri Matisse

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

Dan Flavin

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

Damien Hirst