Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
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I do not evolve, I am.
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Everything we can dream can be real.
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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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Don't waste your youth growing up.
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What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
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When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Action is the fundamental key to success.
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The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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You don't make art, you find it.
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Computers are stupid.
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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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I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
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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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I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
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I paint what I think, not what I see.
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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.