When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso education appreciation children I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Pablo Picasso carpe-diem art thinking When I haven't any blue I use red. Pablo Picasso red color blue Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. Pablo Picasso inspirational life art Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. Pablo Picasso war enemy art All Children are Artists Pablo Picasso artist children One must act in painting as in life, directly. Pablo Picasso painting artist To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Pablo Picasso draws drawing knows I don't work from nature, I work like nature. Pablo Picasso Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. Pablo Picasso mistake lying art The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. Pablo Picasso truthfulness artist lying The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. Pablo Picasso purpose enthusiasm art What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. Pablo Picasso spite capture ideas When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. Pablo Picasso non-conformity conformity trying If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art. Pablo Picasso spit ifs art You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only. Pablo Picasso stronger liberty men The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves. Pablo Picasso athens sculpture people ...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state. Pablo Picasso freedom artist expression Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. Pablo Picasso truth lying art There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso inspirational reality art
