Pablo Picasso citations célèbres
Pablo Picasso: Citations en anglais
Boisgeloup, winter 1934
Richard Friendenthal (1963, p. 256).
Quotes, 1930's, "Conversations avec Picasso," 1934–35
“It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.”
On the first moon landing, quoted in The New York Times (1969-07-21).
1960s
“For a long time I limited myself to one colour — as a form of discipline.”
quoted in Picasso on Art (1988), ed. Dore Ashton
quote on Picasso's 'Blue' and 'Rose' periods
Attributed from posthumous publications
“I don't know where he [ Marc Chagall ] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.”
As quoted in Marc Chagall, – a Biography, by Sidney Alexander, Cassell, London, 1978, p. 33
Attributed from posthumous publications
Source: 1920s, "Picasso Speaks" (1923), p. 391.
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Compare: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." T. S. Eliot, in Philip Massinger, in The Sacred Wood (1920)
Disputed
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
Attributed by Banksy on Instagram (October 6, 2018): "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge" - Picasso https://www.instagram.com/p/BomXijJhArX/?hl=en&taken-by=banksy. This was actually written by anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin in his essay "Reaction in Germany," in 1842.
Source: Moore, John (2004). I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition. Brooklyn NY: Autonomedia. p. 87.
Source: Lehning, Arthur, ed. (1973). Mikhail Bakunin: Selected Writings. London: Cape. p. 58.
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