Form Quotes by Pablo Picasso

13 Form quotes by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso’s thoughts on form echo his revolutionary approach to visual art. These thirteen brief insights capture his belief in the power of shape to transform perception and expression.

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For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline.

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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

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When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

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When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with…

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From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less…

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Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you…

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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you…

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No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his.…

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Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with…

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How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them…

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It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one…

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The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an…

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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are…

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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

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When I haven't any blue I use red.

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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

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Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the…

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It takes a long time to become young.

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given…

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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.

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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do…

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Action is the foundational key to all success. --Pablo Picasso

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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on…

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A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living…

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