Thoughts of Pablo Picasso
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo PicassoEverything you can imagine is real.
Pablo PicassoPainting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo PicassoI don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.
Pablo PicassoThe older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Pablo PicassoAre we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo PicassoEvery act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo PicassoWell, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
Pablo PicassoWhen you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Pablo PicassoWho sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo PicassoSculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo PicassoWhen I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo PicassoEveryone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
Pablo PicassoI am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo PicassoArt washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo PicassoWhen you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
Pablo PicassoArt is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo PicassoGive me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo PicassoThere is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo PicassoGod is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
