Picasso Quotes

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Mother, Soldier, Said

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner

Until, Office, Doctor

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
Jerry Saltz

Art, She, Until

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
Jerry Saltz

Life, Passion, Mystery

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
Jerry Saltz

Money, Value, Content

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein

Care, Long, Once

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

Greatest, Doubt, Century

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

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
David Hockney

Music, Interest, Struck

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Give, Hockey

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Dag Hammarskjold

Thinking, Everything, Made

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
Carlos Santana

Children, Everything, Learn

My first influence obviously was Picasso.
David Bailey

Influence, Obviously

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
A. P. Herbert

Someone, Looks, Thinks

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.
Anna Quindlen

Work, Down, After

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.
Antonio Banderas

Time, Respect, Character

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
Sean Connery

Good, Old, Else

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.
Alice Cooper

Life, Three, Four

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Damien Hirst

Genius, Might, Painter

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Anish Kapoor

Freedom, Artist, Himself

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
Hugh Hefner

Pink, Period, Blonde

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
Robert Wyatt

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.
John Hughes

Forward, Point, Heroes

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?
Steve Sabol

Time, Woman, Single

We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.
Steve Sabol

Time, Single, Football

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
Steve Guttenberg

Bad, Try, Reason

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
Candice Bergen

Hollywood, Bathroom

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
Roy Lichtenstein

May, Between, Early

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

Looking, Himself, Influence

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

Done, Thought, Away

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