My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter, and wound up Picasso.
Art Quotes
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. (Wife of Pablo Picasso)
When you took time to really notice my flowers you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower…as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don’t.
I am glad to say I have never considered painting simply as pleasure-giving art, a distraction; I have wanted, by drawing and by color since these are my weapons, to penetrate always further forward into the consciousness of the world and of men.
Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art.
