Pablo Picasso, (1881-1973), Spanish Artist Quotes
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 as Picasso.
Indifference means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
Genius is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... If you are lucky.
Why do you try to understand
art? Do you try to understand
the song of a bird?
Lord, protect me from what I want!
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. .