Don't waste your youth growing up.
You can't run a without taking risks.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
We have learned nothing.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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.
All things considered, there is only Matisse.
I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.
To find is the thing.
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
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.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
In the end there is only Matisse.
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
You don't make art, you find it
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Computers are stupid.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
Art is a leap into the dark.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
