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Pablo Picasso Quotes About Art

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

Pablo Picasso Quotes About Life

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

More Quotes by Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

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

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

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.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

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

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

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.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

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.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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