Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 5

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

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

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

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

Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

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

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

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