25 result(s) for Picasso Quotes.
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It is an instrument for offensive and defensive war against the enemy."
"Sculpture is the best comment a painter can make on painting."
"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
"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."
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"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"
"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."
"One must not imitate anything that one wants to create."
"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
"I do not seek. I find."
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
"Anything you can imagine is real."
"The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
"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."
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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
"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."
"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
