A Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that’s a luxury I cannot afford.
Art Quotes
I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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.
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, “You’re on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future – do advise him to give up painting! You can […]
