Pablo Picasso Quotes
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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.
It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.