The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. Pablo Picasso creativitycreativeart The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso hiroshima-and-nagasakigeniusartist There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. Pablo Picasso womenartisttwo When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. Pablo Picasso shipwreckshipspeople I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake. Pablo Picasso spiritualbelieveart I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same. Pablo Picasso stylefashionnumbers Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. Pablo Picasso flowersongart I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. Pablo Picasso i-canphotography To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. Pablo Picasso difficulthatedartist There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun Pablo Picasso wisdominspiringart One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. Pablo Picasso painoppositesthinking Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. Pablo Picasso natureartistart Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? Pablo Picasso understandingartistsympathy It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care. Pablo Picasso apollocaremean He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head. Pablo Picasso doghairthinking Good designers copy; great designers steal. Pablo Picasso copiesstealingdesign When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg. Pablo Picasso portraitseggstrying It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact. Pablo Picasso takendreammean It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. Pablo Picasso errorsgeniuspersonality Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance. Pablo Picasso progressusemean
