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Pablo Picasso Quotes about Painting

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If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

Flower, Painting, Stuck

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

Art, Way, Painting

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

Eye, Painting, Beholder

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

Art, Modesty, Painting

Denis Thomas, Pablo Picasso (1975). “Picasso and his art”

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

War, Done, Painting

Pablo Picasso, Roland Penrose (Sir.) (1960). “Picasso”

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

Relaxation, Painting, Paint

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

Six Months, Done, Painting

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.

Action, Painting, Poet

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Artist, Painting

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.

Way, Painting, Habit

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

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

Art, Research, Painting

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

Inspirational, Different, Painting

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

Painting

Pablo Picasso (2004). “Pablo Picasso und Marie-Thérèse Walter: zwischen Klassizismus und Surrealismus”

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.

Looks, Rooms, Painting

Pablo Picasso, Janie Cohen (1995). “Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne”, Robert Hull Fleming Museum

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

Enemy, Weapons, Painting

We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.

Signatures, Want, Painting

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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

Green, Impossible, Painting

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