Pablo Quotes

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

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.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Computers are stupid.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.

Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

I move in the university of the waves.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

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.

Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.

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

As long as a character doesnt die, the character can always come back.

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.

Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

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.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Basically the French are all peasants.