Quotes About Picasso

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

It is a miracle that one does not dissolve into one's bath like a lump of sugar.

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

Three days later he burst out in a completely new direction: seven drawings transport the "Déjeuners" to the Golden Age, and they are a joy to see, for Picasso was the draughtsman of the world, and the first is as lovely as anything in his long career.

Since Fry had helped to write the catalog he was obliged to be civil: The Times was not. Having dealt with Matisse, the paper said, the art of M. Picasso is a very different matter. He, too, is not a charlatan, but we do not believe that he is an artist of narrow and intense originality like M. Matisse. Rather he seems to us to be by nature extremely imitative, and to have endeavoured to preserve himself from imitation by the pursuit

None of this depressed Picasso, nor yet Kahnweiler: there is a kind of abuse that is a guarantee of excellence and almost of success, for surely people do not utter such shrill and vehement protests unless some Freudian resistance is at work—unless at some level they are aware of the validity of what they see.

It has been said that in the "Jeune fille à la mandoline" Picasso was getting the best of several worlds, and certainly he makes use both of immediate and of remote symbols in what even the most sullen and dogged opponents of Cubism confess to be a

These prints carry on naturally, perhaps inevitably, to Picasso's most important work of 1935, the "Minotauromachie.

making a film with Georges Clouzot, Le Mystère Picasso.

The twenty years have nearly passed, and soon perhaps the voice of authority, speaking through Le Corbusier, will be heard: but so far the UNESCO picture is not looked upon as one of Picasso's successes.

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

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.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

But we can't expect every great artist to have a great soul. If more of them were like Verdi, we could read artists' biographies for uplift; but we would be so repelled by Wagner that we would forget to listen, or by Picasso that we would forget to look.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

Given the choice between four perfectly acceptable movies, they invariably opt for a walk through the Picasso museum or a tour of the cathedral, saying, "I didn't come all the way to Paris so I can sit in the dark." They make it sound so bad. "Yes," I say, "but this is the French dark. It's… darker than the dark we have back home.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his personal response to his approaching death.

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams.

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