Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
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We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
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All Children are Artists.
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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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I am exhausted if I don't work.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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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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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.
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It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit!
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.
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All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
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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 affect us more or less intensely.
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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I don't seek, I find.
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I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.