While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira! Pablo Picasso taughtdrawingmen Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso dustmemoriesart They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans. Pablo Picasso men What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists. Pablo Picasso movementartistlong Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names. Pablo Picasso juancallingnames Painting is a jeu d'esprit. Pablo Picasso painting How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster. Pablo Picasso blockmonstersmen You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it. Pablo Picasso tyrannyperiodssides I want to know one thing, what is color? Pablo Picasso colorknowswant We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it. Pablo Picasso paintingsignatureswant The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. Pablo Picasso painterqualitypast I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. Pablo Picasso donewantpeople When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky. Pablo Picasso few-friendsluckywork Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting. Pablo Picasso discipleifsinteresting For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography Pablo Picasso autobiographyknow-howknows Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands. Pablo Picasso cuttingwarhands I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine. Pablo Picasso winelongneeds The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. Pablo Picasso idlerspeopleart They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never. Pablo Picasso emerald-greenemeraldsart Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. Pablo Picasso artistmatterinteresting
