Pablo Quotes

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.

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

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

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

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

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

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

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

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."

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

Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.

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.

my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place.

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.

All things considered, there is only Matisse.

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

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.

Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.

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

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

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

I love you as one loves certain dark things.

It took me a lifetime.

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

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

I would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the screenwriters, in their own taste, believe depict the way we lived.

Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?

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.

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

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

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

Chicken pot pie--those are my three favorite things.

People who read are people who dream.

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

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.

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.