Pablo Picasso Quotes – Artistic Wisdom and Insight
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Everything you can imagine is real.
It takes a long time to become young.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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 don’t seek. I find.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.
Pablo Picasso Quotes – Artistic Wisdom and Insight part 2
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.
The artist is a bourgeois of the senses.
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.
I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
I am the greatest artist of all time.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward, you can remove all traces of reality.
The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
I would like to live as a poor man with lots of money.