Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).
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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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It took me a lifetime.
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To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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If you can imagine it...it is real.
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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
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We have learned nothing.
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If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
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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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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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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 path to youth takes a lifetime.
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Why assume that to look is to see?
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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
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For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart.
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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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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.