Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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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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Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.
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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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Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
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If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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I don't develop; I am.
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Art is a leap into the dark.
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Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.
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The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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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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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.
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I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
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I have had no true friends, only lovers.
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Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
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In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!
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For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.