When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world. Pablo Picasso eye artist heart Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. Pablo Picasso success positive inspirational The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. Pablo Picasso satisfaction secret art If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. Pablo Picasso paint hundred artist There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes Pablo Picasso different eye way Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Pablo Picasso next color two If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. Pablo Picasso maps lines artist There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color? Pablo Picasso color want trying You're either a goddess ... or a doormat. Pablo Picasso doormat goddess Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? Pablo Picasso beautiful beauty life Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. Pablo Picasso painting weapons enemy Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses. Pablo Picasso cities men people It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . . Pablo Picasso coins pockets insane I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection. Pablo Picasso layers allies dust My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art. Pablo Picasso guernica struggle art What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. Pablo Picasso zero time children Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. Pablo Picasso drawing lasts firsts Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. Pablo Picasso drawing perception hands Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on. Pablo Picasso race goes-on may My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain. Pablo Picasso barcelona spain names
