Quotes of: Picasso Keyword

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

Roy Lichtenstein

Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings? Who's got a busier airport than our airport? You want Picasso? We got Picasso, big Picasso. Nobody can make heads or t...

Love and Shame and Love

...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude.

Life with Picasso

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

Roy Lichtenstein

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

Danny Huston

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

Raf Simons

I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.

Francoise Gilot

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

David Hockney

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

David Hockney

Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows...

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

Speak

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

Francoise Gilot

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

Chasing Vermeer

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Corita Kent

My mom is a sculptress.

P. J. Harvey

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality a...

Sigmar Polke

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete ...

Damien Hirst

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the f...

Ellsworth Kelly

The reason for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegories should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness in the face of a historical situation which he set out to record; his titanic effort to confront a particular hi...

Proudhon, Marx, Picasso