Pablo Quotes

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.

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

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

Art is lies that tell the truth.

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.

I hate it when people pilfer my things.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

You always draw from yourselves even if you're playing the most crazy type of person. What you really want is to be three-dimensional.

It's very difficult to resort to hating [Pablo Escobar] when all he gave you his entire life was love and all the best he ever had.

My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as human beings trying to earn our daily bread.

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

To live is not enough; we must take part.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

I'm a YouTube star, let's put it that way!That sounds like a karaoke star with balls.

I heard the rumours,but the only blond people here [in Sweden] are the guys. And they all look like Ellen DeGeneres. It's Ellen DeGeneres world, and it's all guys! It's now switched.

I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger 'cause I figured he can go back in the future. Put that in the act.

Sometimes I become the comedy jukebox. I read the emails, people give me requests.The shows are just amazing; they're packed with people and they're so much fun to do.

We are kids. The only difference is the toy we have.

Cinema is always a political art, at the end.

There is no insurmountable solitude.

In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!