Top 440 Quotes & Sayings by Pablo Picasso - Page 2

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

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.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

You don't make art, you find it

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

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.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Lord, protect me from what I want!

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But 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, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

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

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

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

When I haven't any blue I use red.

It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

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

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.