Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
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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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We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.
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I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
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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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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
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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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...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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If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.
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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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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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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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There's nothing more difficult than a line.
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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.