Pablo Picasso citations célèbres
Pablo Picasso: Citations en anglais
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Quoted in: Peter Erskine, Rick Mattingly (1998), Drum Perspective, p. 73.
Alternative forms:
"At eight, I was Raphael", he used to say. "It took me a whole lifetime to paint like a child"
From Picasso, my grandfather, Marina Picasso (2001).
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Quote attributed to Picasso in TIME, October 4, 1976, Modern Living: Ozmosis in Central Park http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/07/child-art/ http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918412,00.html <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variante: All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Quoted in: Ingo F. Walther (1996), Picasso, p. 67.
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Quoted in: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=9EgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9, Vol. 57, nr. 11 (11 September 1964). p. 9. <br class="br">1960s
As quoted in Life with Picasso, by François Gilot, 1964, p. 60
1940s
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Attributed in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 132, and many places on the internet, this was actually stated by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Anthon van Rappard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon_van_Rappard (18 August 1885) http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let528/letter.html, also rendered "I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it." <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variante: I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
“For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.”
Quoted in: Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce (1969), Time, Vol. 93. p. 66.
1960s
L'art n'est pas chaste [...], on devrait l’interdire aux ignorants innocents, ne jamais mettre en contact avec lui ceux qui y sont insuffisamment préparés. Oui, l'art est dangereux. Ou s'il est chaste, ce n'est pas de l'art.
Quote by Antonina Vallentin (1963 [1957]), Picasso, p. 168.
1960s
“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”
La peinture n'est pas faite pour décorer des appartements. C'est un instrument de guerre offensive et défensive contre l'ennemi.
La pintura no se ha inventado para adornar las habitaciones. La pintura es un arma ofensiva, en la defensa contra el enemigo.
Les lettres françaises (1943-03-24).
Quotes, 1940's
Yo no busco, yo encuentro. Quoted in Graham Sutherland, "A Trend in English Draughtsmanship", Signature, III (1936), pp. 7-13.
Disputed
Variante: I do not seek. I find.
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Source: Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
1950s
Source: Sergei Eisenstein (1957), Film form [and]: The film sense, p. 127.
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
On met très longtemps à devenir jeune. <br class="br">As quoted by Jean Cocteau The Hand of a Stranger (Journal d'un Inconnu). Horizon Press. 1959 [1953]. http://books.google.com/books?id=HxBJAQAAIAAJ <br class="br">1950s
