Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
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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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Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
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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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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
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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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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
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Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
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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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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
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Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
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Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
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Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.
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I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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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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I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.