Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Pablo Picasso Quotes

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. 

Everything you can imagine is real. 

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. 

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. 

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. 

Action is the foundational key to all success. 

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. 

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

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. 

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. 

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. 

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. 

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. 

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. 

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? 

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. 

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. 

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

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

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