Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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 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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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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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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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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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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The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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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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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 first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.
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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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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
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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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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.