Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I'm not a developer; I am.
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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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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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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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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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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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It took me a lifetime.
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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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I don't develop; I am.
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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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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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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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If you can imagine it...it is real.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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The path to youth takes a lifetime.
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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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Why assume that to look is to see?
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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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I do not evolve, I am.
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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.