Pablo Picasso Quotes
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The path to youth takes a lifetime.
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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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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When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
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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.
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I paint what I think, not what I see.
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Don't waste your youth growing up.
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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 now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.
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Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
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I do not evolve, I am.
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When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
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You don't make art, you find it.
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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.
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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.
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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.
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I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
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The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
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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.