Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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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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There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
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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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I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.
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For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
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Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
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And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
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In the end there is only Matisse.
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Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.
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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
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Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
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Mathematics, trigonometry, chemistry, psychoanalysis, music, and what not have been related to cubism to give it an easier interpretation. All this has been pure literature, not to say nonsense, which brought bad results, blinding people with theories. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it.
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Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.
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All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
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When I haven't any blue I use red.
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I am exhausted if I don't work.
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I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting.
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In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture - then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else
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Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.
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Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.