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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
My first influence obviously was Picasso.
I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.
Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.
Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods.
'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.
Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.
Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.
Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.
So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.