Art Quote by Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers,…

— Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking…

— Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around…

— Pablo Picasso

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

— Pablo Picasso

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate…

— Tom Robbins

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you…

— Henri Matisse

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their…

— Georges Braque

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly,…

— Johannes Kepler

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time…

— M. F. Husain