Quotes About Art

Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

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.

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

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

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

I picked up photography in high school.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.

When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.