We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting. Pablo Picasso curtainssuitslight All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art. Pablo Picasso creatingpeopleart Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. Pablo Picasso goyaclowngreatness Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso copiesdangeroussuccess In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. Pablo Picasso deedsdoeart In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. Pablo Picasso sketchingdrawingfirsts Give me a museum and I'll fill it. Pablo Picasso powerfulhumorouswitty There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too. Pablo Picasso poodle-dogspoodlesdog If you can imagine it...it is real Pablo Picasso imaginerealifs Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. Pablo Picasso miracledoeart Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding. Pablo Picasso biddingstrongerart It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good. Pablo Picasso emotionartistideas If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was. Pablo Picasso masteryislamicage Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. Pablo Picasso frustrateddoctorstwo Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God." Pablo Picasso sacredablepower Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. Pablo Picasso stealingcreativeart Everything we can dream can be real. Pablo Picasso being-realrealdream If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean. Pablo Picasso meanpeoplethinking In art, practice always comes before theory. Pablo Picasso theorypracticeart I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them. Pablo Picasso know-howknowsorder
