Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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To model an object is to possess it.
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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.
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
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As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
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Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
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I'm not a developer; I am.
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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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We have learned nothing.
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All art is subversive.
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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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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
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You can't run a without taking risks.
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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.
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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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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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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.