#picasso

Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings? Who's got a busier airport than our airport? You want Picasso? We got Picasso, big Picasso. Nobody can make heads or tails of it. It's a lion? No, a seahorse. Looks to me like a radiator with wings. Who gives a damn, people, a Picasso's a Picasso. ↗

— Peter Orner

#city #picasso #love

What interests me is to set up what you might call the rapport de grand écart - the most unexpected relationship possible between the things I want to speak about, because there is a certain difficulty in establishing relationships in just that way, and in that difficulty there is an interest, and in that interest there is a certain tension and for me that tension is a lot more important than the stable equilibrium of harmony, which doesn't interest me at all. Reality must be torn apart in every sense of the word. What people forget is that everything is unique. Nature never produces the same thing twice. Hence my stress on seeking the rapport de grand écart: a small head on a large body; a large head on a small body. I want to draw the mind in the direction it's not used to and wake it up. I want to help the viewer discover something he wouldn't have discovered without me. That's why I stress the dissimilarity, for example, between the left eye and the right eye. A painter shouldn't make them so similar. They're just not that way. So my purpose is to set things in movement, to provoke this movement by contradictory tensions, opposing forces, and in that tension or opposition, to find the moment which seems the most interesting to me. ↗

— Françoise Gilot

#reality-of-a-painting #nature

We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it. ↗

— Françoise Gilot

#invention #picasso #nature

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#chose #creation #does #french #him

My first influence obviously was Picasso. ↗

— David Bailey

#influence #obviously #picasso

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#hollywood #like #picasso

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #freedom #himself #huge #huge number

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#gogh #i #nice #picasso #rembrandt

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

#generation #get #hanging #i #inherits

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#connoisseur #interviewed #once #own #picasso