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Pablo Picasso Quotes

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself Picture Quote #1

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas Picture Quote #1

I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face Picture Quote #1

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse Picture Quote #1

It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them Picture Quote #1

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly Picture Quote #1

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Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can’t drink any more Picture Quote #1

I’m a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries Picture Quote #1

Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it? Picture Quote #1

If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme Picture Quote #1

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not Picture Quote #1

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait Picture Quote #1

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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same Picture Quote #1

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky Picture Quote #1

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude Picture Quote #1

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty Picture Quote #1

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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, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand Picture Quote #1

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm Picture Quote #1

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place Picture Quote #1

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be Picture Quote #1

They’ll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never Picture Quote #1

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? Picture Quote #1

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The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future Picture Quote #1

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance Picture Quote #1

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What’s the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it Picture Quote #1

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself Picture Quote #1

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall Picture Quote #1

I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake Picture Quote #1

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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself (Pablo Picasso Quotes) While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas (Pablo Picasso Quotes) I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face (Pablo Picasso Quotes) Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse (Pablo Picasso Quotes) It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them (Pablo Picasso Quotes) I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly (Pablo Picasso Quotes) Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can’t drink any more (Pablo Picasso Quotes) I’m a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries (Pablo Picasso Quotes) Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it? (Pablo Picasso Quotes) If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme (Pablo Picasso Quotes) Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not (Pablo Picasso Quotes) When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait (Pablo Picasso Quotes) I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same (Pablo Picasso Quotes) People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age (Pablo Picasso Quotes) 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 Quotes) When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky (Pablo Picasso Quotes) Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude (Pablo Picasso Quotes) Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty (Pablo Picasso Quotes) 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, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand (Pablo Picasso Quotes) Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm (Pablo Picasso Quotes) I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place (Pablo Picasso Quotes) In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be (Pablo Picasso Quotes) They’ll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never (Pablo Picasso Quotes) Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? (Pablo Picasso Quotes) The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future (Pablo Picasso Quotes) I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance (Pablo Picasso Quotes) I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What’s the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it (Pablo Picasso Quotes) The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself (Pablo Picasso Quotes) In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall (Pablo Picasso Quotes) I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake (Pablo Picasso Quotes)

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