Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 8

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

I do not seek. I find.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

In the end there is only Matisse.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

To find is the thing.

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

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

All art is subversive.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

Action is the foundation of all success.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.