Pablo Picasso Quotes
-
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
-
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
-
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.
-
I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
-
In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
-
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)
-
Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.
-
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.
-
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
-
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.
-
Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
-
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?
-
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
-
Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
-
How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
-
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
-
If you don't know what color to take, take black.
-
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
-
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.
-
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
-
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?