Pablo Picasso: Trending quotes (page 5)

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

“If they took away all my paints, I'd use pastels, if they took away my pastels, I'd use crayons, if they took away my crayons, I'd use a pencil. If they put me in a cell, and stripped me of everything, I'd spit on my finger and draw on the wall.”

“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”

“There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes”

“Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.”

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― 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 indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.”

“We don't grow older we grow riper.”

“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”

“All art is erotic.”

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”