Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.
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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
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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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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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Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
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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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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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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
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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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Iimitate everyone except myself.
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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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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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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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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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Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
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When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you
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I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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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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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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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.