Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 3

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

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.

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

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

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

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Art is a leap into the dark.

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.