Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 11

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?

What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

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

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 blondes to 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 my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.

Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.

You can't run a without taking risks.

It took me a lifetime.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.

I do not evolve, I am.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

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

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.