Pablo Picasso Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Pablo Picasso on Wise Famous Quotes.
When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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.
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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.
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
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.
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form ... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
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.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica).
(about Guernica).
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
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.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.