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 I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them. Pablo Picasso know-howknowsorder It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals. Pablo Picasso stealingpoorartist For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats. Pablo Picasso goddesskindtwo Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. Pablo Picasso copieschess Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age. Pablo Picasso artistagetoday What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that. Pablo Picasso always-tryingpersonalitypeople I don't say everything, but I paint everything. Pablo Picasso cubismpaintart Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice. Pablo Picasso informationpoweradvice Art is lies that tell the truth. Pablo Picasso telling-the-truthlyingart The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon. Pablo Picasso teachinglyingart Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso hiroshima-and-nagasakiartistpositive All things considered, there is only Matisse. Pablo Picasso matisseall-things When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace. Pablo Picasso colordustmissing I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. Pablo Picasso luxurydollarsart I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly. Pablo Picasso paintinglooksrooms No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. Pablo Picasso defensewarenemy Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. Pablo Picasso magicstrangeworld Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. Pablo Picasso canvaseveningdone Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. Pablo Picasso health-beautybeautiful-womenbeauty 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
