Pablo Picasso Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success
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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Painting

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Music, Art, World

• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Motivational, Art, War

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Children, Years

  "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.

• I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Way, Painting, Habit

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

• A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

  Pablo Picasso

  Mind, Done, Goes On

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Witty, Money, Men

• Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Men, Perception

• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Flower

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Carpe Diem, Thinking

  In John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60

• Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Stronger, Bidding

  Jean Louis Ferrier, Pablo Picasso (1996). “Picasso”, Vilo International

• I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Numbers, Style

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

• Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

  Pablo Picasso

  War, Done, Painting

  Pablo Picasso, Roland Penrose (Sir.) (1960). “Picasso”

• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Color

• Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Sculpture

  Pablo Picasso, Anatoli Podoksik (1996). “Pablo Picasso: the creative eye (from 1881 to 1914)”, Parkstone Press

• Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Flower

• One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Different, Painting

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Thinking, Opposites

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

• Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

  Pablo Picasso

  Magic, World, Strange

  Anne Baldassari, Pablo Picasso, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1997). “Picasso and photography: the dark mirror”, Flammarion-Pere Castor

• Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

  Pablo Picasso

  Average, Energy, Dozen

• I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.

  Pablo Picasso

  Shoes, Special, Hammers

• I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Luxury, Dollars

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