Pablo Picasso Quotes
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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
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You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.
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Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
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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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A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it
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Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
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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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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
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One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
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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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People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!
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Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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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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I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.
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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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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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When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.
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When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
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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.