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“Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“It is a miracle that one does not dissolve into one's bath like a lump of sugar.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.”
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
“We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else.”-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
“You have to wake people up! To revolutionize their way of identifying things...you've got to create images they won't accept.”
Quote by -Pablo Picasso
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Quote by -Walt Disney
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Quote by -Beverly Sills
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Quote by -Bertrand Russell
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.'
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
"To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir