Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 4

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Sex and art are the same thing.

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.

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

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

I am exhausted if I don't work.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.

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

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

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

Why assume that to look is to see?

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

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

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

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

Everything we can dream can be real.