Pablo Picasso Quotes

I don't know where he [ Marc Chagall ] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.

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

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else.”-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

A morte não é a maior perda da vida. A maior perda da vida é o que morre dentro de nós enquanto vivemos...

Many think that Cubism is an art of transition, an experiment which is to bring ulterior results. Those who think that way have not understood it. Cubism is not either a seed or a foetus, but an art dealing primarily with forms, and when a form is realized it is there to live its own life. A mineral substance, having geometric formation, is not made so for transitory purposes, it is to remain what it is and will always have its own form.

It took me a lifetime.

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. If he only shows in his work that he has searched, and re-searched, for the way to put over lies, he would never accomplish anything.

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. 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.