Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.
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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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Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
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We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.
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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 you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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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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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
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We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.
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To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
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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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...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.