Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.
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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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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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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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I am exhausted if I don't work.
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I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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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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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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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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We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
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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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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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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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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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I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.
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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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I don't know where he Marc Chagall gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.
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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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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.
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Without great solitude no serious work is possible.