Quotes About Expression

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them.

Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods.

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.

Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

You are bound to pick up influences.