Quotes of: Picasso Keyword

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Chuck Close

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

David Hockney

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Edvard Munch

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Edvard Munch

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

Frank Gehry

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

John James Audubon

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