-
Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso -
When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
Pablo Picasso
-
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."
Pablo Picasso -
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
I do not evolve, I am.
Pablo Picasso -
Art is a leap into the dark.
Pablo Picasso -
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
Pablo Picasso
-
The path to youth takes a lifetime.
Pablo Picasso -
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.
Pablo Picasso -
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
Pablo Picasso -
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
Pablo Picasso -
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
Pablo Picasso -
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
Pablo Picasso
-
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
Pablo Picasso -
Computers are stupid.
Pablo Picasso -
A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
Pablo Picasso -
If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
Pablo Picasso -
Action is the fundamental key to success.
Pablo Picasso -
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.
Pablo Picasso
-
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
Pablo Picasso -
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso