Pablo Picasso quotes - page 7

The glories, trumpets, palms... and low reliefs,... all that makes a monument. (Pablo Picasso)
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider's web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them. View quote
Pablo Picasso
You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I don't know where he [ Marc Chagall ] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? View quote
Pablo Picasso
Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. View quote
Pablo Picasso
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. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. (Pablo Picasso)
Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. View quote
Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. View quote
Pablo Picasso
If they took away all my paints, I'd use pastels, if they took away my pastels, I'd use crayons, if they took away my crayons, I'd use a pencil. If they put me in a cell, and stripped me of everything, I'd spit on my finger and draw on the wall. View quote
Pablo Picasso
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. View quote
Pablo Picasso
To find is the thing. View quote
Pablo Picasso
There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too. View quote
Pablo Picasso
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art. View quote
Pablo Picasso
If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. (Pablo Picasso)
It is my misfortune and probably my delight to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondesto have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit ... I put all the things I like into mypictures. The things so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. View quote
Pablo Picasso
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. View quote
Pablo Picasso
You can't run a business without taking risks. View quote
Pablo Picasso