Pablo Picasso Quotes
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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
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We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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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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There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
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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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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
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How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.
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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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Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
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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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You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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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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...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.
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I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
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One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
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The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
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I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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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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What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.