Artist Quotes
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“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“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. ”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
Nobody likes a celebrity DJ for the sake of style, so I don't do that - I try to be good at what I do. It's all about resetting, it's my escape. It is work, it's a job, but I just love doing it.
Quote by -Idris Elba
Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
Quote by -Idris Elba
Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Quote by -Idris Elba
I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
Quote by -Jude Law
"Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable."
Quote by -Bryce Dallas
"Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist."
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Quote by -Virginia Woolf
"The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them."
Quote by -Deborah Moggach
"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."
Quote by -F. Scott Fitzgerald