Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.
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There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
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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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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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Everything we can dream can be real.
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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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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
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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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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
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It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.
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What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
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If I don't have red, I use blue.