Artist · Spanish · 1881 – 1973 · 79 quotes
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso
Artist · Spanish · 1881 – 1973
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
It takes a long time to become young.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Youth has no age.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
I do not seek. I find.
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.
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.
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.
