When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
