Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. P
  4. Pablo Picasso
  5. Lying

Pablo Picasso Quotes about Lying

All Pablo Picasso Quotes Age Art Beauty Bones Business Canvas Children Creativity Cubism Design Earth Feelings Freedom Genius Giving Growing Up Happiness Hate Heart Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Liberty Life Lifetime Lying quotes Motivational Music Pain Painting Passion Past Photography Positive Progress Purpose Reality Running Simplicity Skins Solitude Soul Style Success Time Today Understanding Vision Wall War Work Youth
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

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

Pablo Picasso
Art, Lying, Art Is

Art is lies that tell the truth.

Pablo Picasso
Art, Lying, Telling The Truth

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

Pablo Picasso
Lying, Believe, Deceit
Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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.

Pablo Picasso
Art, Lying, Realizing
In Dore Ashton Picasso on Art (1972) "Two statements by Picasso"

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

Pablo Picasso
Art, Truth, Lying
"Leventis Knew Where the Truth Lies". Speech by Androulla Vassiliou at the opening of A.G Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, March 21, 2014.

The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.

Pablo Picasso
Art, Lying, Teaching

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso
Art, Truth, Lying
The Arts, May 1923

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Pablo Picasso
Art, Lying, Views
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso
Art, Mistake, Lying

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Pablo Picasso
Lying, Artist, Truthfulness
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

Pablo Picasso
Art, Lying, Given

You May Also Like: