Top 440 Quotes & Sayings by Pablo Picasso - Page 8

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

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

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

I'm not a developer; I am.

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

We have learned nothing.

The more technique there is, the less there is

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

I imitate everyone except myself.

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

All art is subversive.

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