Pablo Picasso Quotes
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The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
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Action is the foundation of all success.
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What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.
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In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
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I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
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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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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
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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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The more technique there is, the less there is.
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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
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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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Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
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Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
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I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.
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It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
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Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
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Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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I have had no true friends, only lovers.