I am only a public entertainer who understands his time. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. Pablo Picasso being-donedonechange To find is the thing. Pablo Picasso I am exhausted if I don't work. Pablo Picasso exhaustedifswork When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us. Pablo Picasso discoveringaimwanted That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working. Pablo Picasso catch-meinspirationdoe What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. Pablo Picasso emotionalwantfeelings What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself. Pablo Picasso tryingmeanideas But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest. Pablo Picasso vanitygreedartist When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. Pablo Picasso doing-nothingrelaxtired If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake. Pablo Picasso minesfakeifs Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). Pablo Picasso guernicaweaponsenemy The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. Pablo Picasso getting-oldergolfwind Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse. Pablo Picasso artistmeanthinking Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely. Pablo Picasso circlesartthinking The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. Pablo Picasso sentimentsinterestmatter While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. Pablo Picasso canvasconscious I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics. Pablo Picasso hammersshoesspecial The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust. Pablo Picasso dustpastfall People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous! Pablo Picasso ridiculousaskingpeople I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. Pablo Picasso six-monthspaintingdone
