Quotes of: Pablo-picasso Keyword

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

Urs Fischer

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

William Quigley

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

Revelations

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

Dylan Lauren

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Stephen Hopkins

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

Balthus

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Frank Stella

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Paul Rand

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

Natalia Makarova

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

Norman Rockwell

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

Olafur Eliasson

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Pierre Bonnard

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

Pierre Bonnard

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

Paul Cezanne

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Paul Cezanne

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Paul Cezanne

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Paul Cezanne

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

Peter Doig

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Philip Guston