Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. Pablo Picasso war art thinking It took me a lifetime. Pablo Picasso lifetime I don't develop; I am. Pablo Picasso One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live? Pablo Picasso Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. Pablo Picasso circles sea perfect It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them. Pablo Picasso painter would-be looks The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm. Pablo Picasso poverty essentials enthusiasm The more technique there is, the less there is Pablo Picasso technique Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. Pablo Picasso censorship ignorant art Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible. Pablo Picasso painting green impossible The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. Pablo Picasso judging advice giving I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. Pablo Picasso apparitions canvas order I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future. Pablo Picasso past ideas thinking I'm not a developer; I am. Pablo Picasso developers It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it. Pablo Picasso fate passion justice It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues. Pablo Picasso statues marble strange When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Pablo Picasso Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso Art is a lie that tells the truth. Pablo Picasso Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso
