It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso I have had no true friends, only lovers. Pablo Picasso true-friend lovers love Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it. Pablo Picasso clay mold looks Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important. Pablo Picasso important doe want The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future. Pablo Picasso freedom focus artist What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man. Pablo Picasso primitive-man ivory men One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. Pablo Picasso fortune-cookie age birthday Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. Pablo Picasso poet heart today The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso long mean book In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend! Pablo Picasso signatures names stories I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them. Pablo Picasso hidden-meaning eye If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922. Pablo Picasso canvas forgery signatures I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place. Pablo Picasso illusion quantity color All art is subversive. Pablo Picasso subversive art-is art I imitate everyone except myself. Pablo Picasso I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it. Pablo Picasso emotion done want When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. Pablo Picasso illness-and-death protection art You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him. Pablo Picasso eye men hands Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves. Pablo Picasso elements artist world I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. Pablo Picasso vision purpose feelings This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax. Pablo Picasso sake ideas art
