Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence. Pablo Picasso realideasthinking People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. Pablo Picasso wantpeopleart The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. Pablo Picasso techniqueartistworry Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. Pablo Picasso alarmsworkmen To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. Pablo Picasso imitationcopiesartist Good taste is the enemy of creativity. Pablo Picasso creativitytasteenemy Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. Pablo Picasso intuitionbrainart 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 scenthandsreality A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder Pablo Picasso beholderpaintingeye I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. Pablo Picasso vanitystupidityart When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. Pablo Picasso portraitureportraitseggs As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done Pablo Picasso doneartistneeds The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all. Pablo Picasso importantcreativematter You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things. Pablo Picasso discoverygivingpast We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone. Pablo Picasso sandgonerunning To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. Pablo Picasso blowmeanart To be young, really young, takes a very long time. Pablo Picasso younginspirationallong All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? Pablo Picasso paintgeniuschildren Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. Pablo Picasso paincolorartist I am only a public entertainer who understands his time. Pablo Picasso entertainersknow-yourself
