Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time. Pablo Picasso track And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. Pablo Picasso riches today mean In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. Pablo Picasso past art If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful. Pablo Picasso genius success men I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now. Pablo Picasso beautiful men thinking The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless. Pablo Picasso paint useless goal We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities. Pablo Picasso community tunnels light If I don't have red, I use blue. Pablo Picasso blue inspirational life We have learned nothing. Pablo Picasso Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working. Pablo Picasso inspiration A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. Pablo Picasso artist men hands I hate it when people pilfer my things. Pablo Picasso i-hate hate people An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality. Pablo Picasso artist reality looks We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. Pablo Picasso class-distinction picks So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers. Pablo Picasso tactics freedom states It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is. Pablo Picasso artist doe art The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously. Pablo Picasso plot intelligent acting There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us. Pablo Picasso betrayed dictatorship authority The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered. Pablo Picasso curves secret people Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects Pablo Picasso my-own solitude done
