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
Variant: All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
“Every child is an artist until he's told he's not an artist.”
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
Non-Fiction, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)
Variant: Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
“Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?”
Quote from exhibition catalogue, Mark Tobey, 1951, as cited in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p.13
1950's
“With every artist comes the image he portrays and the picture that he paints”
"One Day at a Time" (featured on Tupac: Resurrection, 2003)
2000s
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“It would be a sad thing for an artist if he knew how to paint.”
so sad. An artist paints because it is a challenge to him – it is like trying to twist the devil. If you overcome it, there is no sport left. I don't even like to talk about painting. It is impossible to talk about painting because I don't know what it is. If I knew what it was I would get out a patent and then no one else would be able to paint.
1942 - 1948, A Painter in a Glass House' (1948)
“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.”
note of 13 March 1947; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 32
1921 - 1956
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
