Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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.
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Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!
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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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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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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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That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.
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The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
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Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
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Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
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A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
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There's nothing more difficult than a line.
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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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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.
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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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I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.
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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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We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.