Quotes of: Pablo-picasso Keyword

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Joan Miro

All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.

Milton Glaser

I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Helen Frankenthaler

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Maya Lin

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

Willard Wigan

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Georgia O'Keeffe

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

Elizabeth Peyton

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

Egon Schiele

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Edward Tufte

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

Francis Alys

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Frank Gehry

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

Franz Kline

I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.

Faith Ringgold

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Gustave Courbet

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Chuck Close

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

Caio Fonseca

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Cass Gilbert

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.

Casey Nicholaw

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

Chris Ofili

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Claes Oldenburg