Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.
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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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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
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Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.
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When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
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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 one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
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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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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
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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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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
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If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.
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The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
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The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
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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.