Quotes from Pablo Picasso
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
- Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
- Pablo Picasso
When you're really young, you're young for life.
- Pablo Picasso
One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
- Pablo Picasso
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.
- Pablo Picasso
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
- Pablo Picasso
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
- Pablo Picasso
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
- Pablo Picasso
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
- Pablo Picasso
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
- Pablo Picasso
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
- Pablo Picasso