Quotes About Art

I did ballet, piano and all that - my brother did martial arts, my passion.

My muse has always been the piano.

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

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

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.

My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear's a bit bigger than my left - which showed up particularly in school photographs - so my mother used to call me her 'little Picasso.'

The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.

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

I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.

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

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them.

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

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.

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

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

I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.

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.

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

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.

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.