Pablo Picasso Quotes
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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I draw like other people bite their nails.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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On August 2, 1914, I took Braque and Derain to the Gare d'Avignon drafted as a soldier for World war 1. I never saw them again not literally a fact, but the close relation between Picasso and Braque ended.
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You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.
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The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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There are more copies than originals among people.
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Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.