Pablo Picasso Quotes

If I don't have red, I use blue.

If you can imagine it...it is real

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

You don't make art, you find it

Action is the fundamental key to success.

I am exhausted if I don't work.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

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.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?

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.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

All things considered, there is only Matisse.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

It took me a lifetime.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

People who read are people who dream.

Art is a leap into the dark.

If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.