74 result(s) for Pablo Picasso Quotes.
"A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done, it changes as one's thoughts change."
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
"I am the greatest artist of all time."
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web."
"I do not seek. I find."
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
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"I am only an entertainer who has understood his time."
"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
"Youth has no age."
"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."
"Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions."
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
"Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth."
"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."
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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
"It takes a long time to become young."
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
"We don't grow older, we grow riper."
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
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"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
"An artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."
"I do not seek, I find."
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."
"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy."
"Colors are features of the world, that cause excitement in us, or calm."
"Sculpture is the best comment that painter can make on painting."
"To finish a work? To finish what one is doing? What nonsense! On the contrary, a work is made in order to live without its maker."
"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun."
"The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed to contact those not completely prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."
"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
"You must do violence to the rules."
"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of offensive and defensive war against the enemy."
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
"Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, destined no more than anyone else to be taken seriously!"
"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed to come into contact with those not completely prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."
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