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Pablo Picasso Quotes

Pablo Picasso quotes about painting

Spanish Artist, Painter October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973

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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain... Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool... Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso quote: "One must act in painting as in life, directly."
One must act in painting as in life, directly. Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso quote: "I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What..."
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso quote: "Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on..."
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Pablo Picasso
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands. Pablo Picasso
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso quote: "The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures..."
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso quote: "Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have..."
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. Pablo Picasso
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included. Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso quote: "One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just..."
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso quote: "Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not..."
Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels. Pablo Picasso
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. Pablo Picasso

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