Pablo Picasso Quotes about Art

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

You don't make art, you find it

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

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.

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.

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.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

Art is a leap into the dark.

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.

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.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.