Pablo Picasso Quotes about Reality

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You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Pablo Picasso

Reality, Realism, Erase

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Pablo Picasso

Reality, Simplicity, Concrete

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

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Reality, Simplicity, May

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

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Art, Reality

Pablo Picasso (1964*). “Picasso and Man”

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

Pablo Picasso

Reality, Hands, Scent

Pablo Picasso, Anatoli Podoksik (1996). “Pablo Picasso: the creative eye (from 1881 to 1914)”, Parkstone Press

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Pablo Picasso

Reality, Darkness, Found

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

Pablo Picasso

Art, Reality, Ideas

"Conversation avec Picasso". Interview with Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, Volume X, No. 7-10 (pp. 173-178), 1935; later quoted in Richard Friedenthal "Letters of the Great Artists From Blake to Pollock" translated by Daphne Woodward (pp. 256-257), 1963.

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Reality, Looks