Pablo Picasso Quotes

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

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

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

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.

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

It took me a lifetime.

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

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

Sex and art are the same thing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

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

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.