Pablo Picasso

“The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.”

“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.”

“It takes a long time to grow young.”

“It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.”

“To find is the thing.”

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

“Ko hoce nadje nacin, ko nece nadje opravdanje.”

“Sve što možeš da zamisliš je stvarno.”

“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“A morte não é a maior perda da vida. A maior perda da vida é o que morre dentro de nós enquanto vivemos...”

“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought”

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

“I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”

“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 them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”

“My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

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

“The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

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

“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.”

“Kažete da ste neshvaćeni mladi prijatelju.Strpite se.I dijamant je u osnovu ugljenik, ali je umeo da čeka.”

“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

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

“We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.”

“On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard”

“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

“Art is a lie that reveals the truth.”

“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

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

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso”

“Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”

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

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ”

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“It took me a lifetime.”

“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”

“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.”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ”

“We don't grow older we grow riper.”

“The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. ”