All Pablo Picasso Quotes
- Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. All
- Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information… Advice
- I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to… Advance
- I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not… All
- I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green… Feelings
- You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation.… Alone
- If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places,… Air
- You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. Always Erase
- Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness. Darkness
- Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and… All
- To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. All
- The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. Art
- I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or… Express
- I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. Apparitions
- No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a… Accompany
- The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of… Always Remain
- Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject,… Green
- Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one… Different Methods
- We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. Approaching
- You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it. Escape
- What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. Always Wish
- I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. Art
- What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must… Achieve
- While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. Canvas
- If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you. Art