Quotes About Inspiration

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.

Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

When I started out in the early 1970s French cooking was really my only serious influence. For the first 10 years of having the seafood restaurant open I went to France, and particularly Brittany, to pick up ideas.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

I want to meet Brandon Crawford and just pick his brain and figure out what helps him out on the defensive side of the ball.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

You are bound to pick up influences.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.