Pablo Picasso Quotes about Art - Page 2

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I do not seek. I find.

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.