Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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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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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 don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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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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If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.
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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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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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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.
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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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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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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.
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If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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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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Action is the foundation of all success.
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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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The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.