Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms, well then think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affects us more or less intensely. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
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All Children are Artists.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.
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The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.
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The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.