Ideas Quotes by Pablo Picasso

14 Ideas quotes by Pablo Picasso

Picasso’s brush never stopped at paint; he also left a trail of words about how ideas form. In these fourteen snippets you’ll find the painter’s candid thoughts on imagination, enough to spark a new creative habit without overwhelming you.

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This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be…

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It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that…

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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of…

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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always…

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Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following…

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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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If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea…

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Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.…

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What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color…

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Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight…

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What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong…

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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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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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