Painter Quotes

“How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.”

“If I don't have red, I use blue.”

“The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.”

“I'm not a developer; I am.”

“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”

“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.”

“"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.”

“Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.”

“I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.”

“Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.”

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?”

“We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.”

“All things considered, there is only Matisse.”

“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.”

“Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.”

“Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.”

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

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”

“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”

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

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

“As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done”

“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.”