Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Sex and art are the same thing.
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This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.
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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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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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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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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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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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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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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.
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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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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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The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
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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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It takes a long time to become young.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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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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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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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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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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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.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.