Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
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When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
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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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I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
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Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
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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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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.
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It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.
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If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.
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When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
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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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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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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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When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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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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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
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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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I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
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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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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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The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.