Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
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Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
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I don't develop; I am.
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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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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.
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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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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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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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Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
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One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
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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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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
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There's nothing more difficult than a line.
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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
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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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Basically the French are all peasants.
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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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Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.
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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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Art is lies that tell the truth.