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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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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The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
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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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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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"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
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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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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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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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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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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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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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Iimitate everyone except myself.
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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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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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A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
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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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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
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When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
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To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.