I leave you the best Pablo Picasso quotes about love, life, art, success, imagination and much more. Picasso a Spanish painter and sculptor, creator of Cubism with Georges Braque and Juan Gris.
You may also be interested in these phrases about art or these about creativity.
-Everything you can imagine is real.
-When I was a child my mother told me “if you are going to be a soldier, you will be a general. If you are going to be a monk, you will end up being the Pope ”. Instead, I became a painter and ended up being Picasso.
-I would like to live as a poor man with a lot of money.
-I paint objects as I think of them, not as I see them.
-Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.
-Just leave for tomorrow what you are willing to leave undone when you die.
-Learn the rules like a pro, then you can break them like an artist.
-Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
-Do the things you can't do. This is how you get to do them.
-Love is the greatest appetizer of life.
-Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
-My hand tells me what I'm thinking.
-Copying others is necessary, but copying yourself is pathetic.
-Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
-It took me four years to paint like Rafael but a whole life to paint like a child.
-Painting is the profession of a blind man. The painter does not paint what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
-Youth has no age.
-I do not seek, I find.
-Today's world makes no sense. Why would I have to paint pictures that have it?
-It takes a long time to get young.
-The first half of life is learning to be an adult, the second half is learning to be a child.
-Don't waste your youth growing up.
-The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about. The more technique there is, the less technique there is.
-Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
-People want art. And they are given art. But the less art there is in the painting, the more paint there is.
-He who thinks he can, can. He who thinks he cannot, cannot. That is an inexorable and indisputable law.
-Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
-I'm always doing what I can't do, so I can learn how to do it.
-Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
-To paint you need to close your eyes and sing.
-Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-Action is the fundamental key to all success.
-All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.
-Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-The purpose of art is to clean the dust of daily life from our souls.
-Every positive value has its price in negative terms ... Einstein's genius brought Hiroshima.
-Never let a dichotomy rule your life, a dichotomy where you hate what you do in order to have pleasure in your free time. Find a situation where your work gives you as much happiness as your free time.
-Our goals can only be achieved through a plan, in which we fervently believe, and through which we vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
-Others have seen it and asked why. I've seen what it could be and asked why not.
-God is really just another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. It does not have a true style. He just tries other things.
-Ah, good taste! What a horrible thing! Taste is the enemy of creativity.
-The main enemy of creativity is common sense.
-If only we could get our brains out and use only our eyes ...
-The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
-Painting is just another way to keep a journal.
-There is no abstract art. It should always start with something. Then you can remove all traces of reality.
-The meaning of life is finding our gift. The purpose of life is to give it up.
-Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-People want to find meaning in everything and everyone. That is the disease of our age.
-I start with an idea and then it turns into something else.
-Sculpture is the art of intelligence.
-What you do is what counts. Not what one intended to do.
-Every now and then a picture is painted that appears to have opened a door and serves as a springboard for other things..
-We do not grow old, we mature.
-The artist is a receptacle of emotions that come from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing shadow or from a spider web..
-The peculiarity of the colors is that they follow emotional changes.
-Why do two colors put next to each other sing? Can this really be explained? No. In the same way that one can never learn how to paint.
-There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to see it with different eyes.
-Paint is not made for decorating apartments. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (About Guernica).
-People who make art their business are mostly imposters.
-Who correctly sees the human face: the photographer, the mirror or the painter?
-Some of the cosmic dust falls once a day on your head. With each breath, we inhale a little history of our universe, the past and future of our planet, the smells and stories of the world around us, even the seeds of life..
-We haven't learned anything in twelve thousand years. (When leaving the cave of Lascaux, France).
-There is nothing more difficult than a line.
-We are constantly moving dust around, only to replace it with more dust - entropy always wins..
-An idea is nothing more than a starting point. As soon as it is elaborated, it is transformed by thought.
-I'm a woman. Every artist is a woman and must have a taste for other women. Artists who are gay cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they are women themselves, they are returning to normality..
-The academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start to measure her legs.
-I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting.
-Success is dangerous. You start to copy yourself, and copying yourself is more dangerous than copying others. Leads to sterility.
-People who try to explain pictures often bark up the wrong tree.
-One must act in painting as in life, directly.
-You must not always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, especially when there is no answer.
-Nobody pays attention if one always says the same things, with the same words and the same tone of voice.
-I understand how people see things in the roots of trees, in a crack in a wall, in an eroded stone. But in the marble? It comes in blocks and does not conjure up any images. It inspires nothing.
-Why are you trying to understand art? Are you trying to understand the song of a bird?
-Art is not true.
-A plagiarist is someone who steals from a person. A true artist robs them all.
-The Parthenon is actually a corral on which someone built a roof; and they were adding columns and sculptures because there were people in Athens who were working and wanted to express themselves.
-When art critics get together, they talk about Form, Structure, and Meaning. When the artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
-What I find horrible today is that people are always trying to find personality for themselves. Nobody cares about what we might call the ideal of a painter ... of the kind that has always existed ... no. They couldn't care less about that.
-Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in the bathroom like a sugar cube.
-Now there is fame. Of all: hunger, misery, public misunderstanding; fame is by far the worst. It is God's punishment for the artist. It's sad. It's true.
-What could be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. Perhaps that child will one day become a true painter, or even a great painter. But then you will have to start all over again, from scratch.
-Unless your work causes you problems, it is useless.
-Sculpture is the best comment a painter can make about his painting.
-Museums are just a lot of lies.
-We have infected the images in museums with all our nonsense, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We've turned it into ridiculous little things.
-Your work in life is your maximum seduction.
-Drawing is a kind of hypnotism.
-I, who have been involved with all styles of painting, can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion that carry snobs and profiteers; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
-Art is never chaste. It should be forbidden for the innocent ignorant, they should never be allowed contact with those who are not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. If art is chaste, it is not art.
-Is there anything more dangerous than empathic understanding?
-An idea is a starting point and nothing more. As soon as you make it, the thought transforms it.
-When you start to paint a portrait and look for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you inevitably arrive at the egg. Similarly, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes the portrait..
-You do a complete painting for a peach and people think otherwise, that particular peach is just a detail.
-People who talk about beautiful things scare me. What is beautiful? One must talk about problems in painting.
-If I spit, they'll take my spit and frame it like a great work of art.
-Matisse makes a drawing, then makes a copy of it. He copies it again five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He is convinced that the last, the most destitute, is the best, the purest, the definitive; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In the draw, nothing is better than the first try.
-I don't believe in accidents. There are no encounters in history, there are no accidents.
-Often, when reading a book, one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can feel the pleasure that comes from describing a landscape or a person, as if painting what he is saying, because deep down in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
-Finishing a job? ... how absurd, finishing means killing him, freeing him from his soul ... giving him the coup de grace for the painter and for the painting.
-Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but the application of what instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
-When we love a woman we don't begin to measure her limbs.
-We must not discriminate between things. As far as things are concerned, there are no class distinctions. We must choose what is good for us where we can find it.
-What is really a face? Your own photo? her makeup? Or is it a face painted by a painter or by another painter?… Doesn't everyone look at themselves in their own particular way? Warps just don't exist.
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