Pablo Picasso Quotes
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
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I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
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Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
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Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
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When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
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An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.
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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
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There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping
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The more technique there is, the less there is.
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A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
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To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
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A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
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When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
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When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.
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There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.