Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
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 be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” ― Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
I’d like to live like a poor man – only with lots of money.
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting – that they must understand.
Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
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.
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.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.