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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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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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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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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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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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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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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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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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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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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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.
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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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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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This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.
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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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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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All Children are Artists.