Quotes of Picasso - somelinesforyou

“ I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. ”

- Rita Rudner

“ Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom. ”

- Candice Bergen

“ A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso. ”

- Hugh Mills

“ There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Miro and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. ”

- Roy Lichtenstein

“ A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon — and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body. ”

- Mildred and Victor Goertzel

“ Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pres: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor… ”

- Milan Kundera

“ The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right — you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold
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