Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 7

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.