Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.
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"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
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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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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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And from the point of view of art there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. That those lies are necessary to our mental selves is beyond any doubt, as it is through them that we form our aesthetic point of view of life. (Paris 1923)
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I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
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To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
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If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.
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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.