Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. Pablo Picasso realismerasereality You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. Pablo Picasso deceitbelievelying It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further. Pablo Picasso nextperfectionmean Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness. Pablo Picasso darknessfoundreality Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included. Pablo Picasso dozenenergyaverage For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping Pablo Picasso walldrawingcells The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense. Pablo Picasso motivationalbeautifullife Basically the French are all peasants. Pablo Picasso peasants Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime. Pablo Picasso stylevisionyears Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Pablo Picasso sculpturepainartist For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart Pablo Picasso splitsactionreality There are more copies than originals among people. Pablo Picasso copiesoriginalspeople Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso truthlyingart I draw like other people bite their nails. Pablo Picasso drawingpeopleart If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. Pablo Picasso politicspoliticalwould-be Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper. Pablo Picasso drawingpaperlooks Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. Pablo Picasso designcolorart An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. Pablo Picasso motivationalinspirationalart There's nothing more difficult than a line. Pablo Picasso difficultlineslife What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. Pablo Picasso motivationalwarart
