Pablo Picasso Quotes
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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
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Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.
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Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
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You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
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The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
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There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.
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To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.
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When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.
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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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Iimitate everyone except myself.
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I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
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Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.