In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things… — 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
Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense… — 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
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.” — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. — 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
