Pablo Picasso słynne cytaty
Źródło: Przemysław Słowiński, Sławni ludzie w anegdocie, Videograf II, Katowice, 2009, ISBN 978-83-7183-727-2
Pablo Picasso cytaty
„Także wśród ludzi jest więcej kopii niż oryginałów.”
Wariant: Także wśród ludzi jest więcej kopii niż oryginałów.
Źródło: Wielka księga mądrości, wybór Jacek i Tomasz Illg
Źródło: Maria Rzepińska, Siedem wieków malarstwa europejskiego, wyd. II, popr., Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wrocław 1986, s. 446.
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wybór Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, op. cit.
Pablo Picasso: Cytaty po angielsku
“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
Disputed
Wariant: 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.
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."
Misattributed
Wariant: 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
Wariant: I do not seek. I find.
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Źródło: Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

1950s
Źródło: 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.
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
1950s