I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them. 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 real ideas thinking People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. Pablo Picasso want people art The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. Pablo Picasso technique artist worry Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. Pablo Picasso alarms work men To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. Pablo Picasso imitation copies artist Good taste is the enemy of creativity. Pablo Picasso creativity taste enemy 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 intuition brain art 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 scent hands reality A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder Pablo Picasso beholder painting eye 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 vanity stupidity art When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. Pablo Picasso portraiture portraits eggs As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done Pablo Picasso done artist needs The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all. Pablo Picasso important creative matter 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 discovery giving past 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 sand gone running 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 blow mean art To be young, really young, takes a very long time. Pablo Picasso young inspirational long All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? Pablo Picasso paint genius children 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 pain color artist I am only a public entertainer who understands his time. Pablo Picasso entertainers know-yourself
