Pablo Picasso quotes about the craft
9 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Pablo Picasso wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 9 in the full collection.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find, is the thing.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
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…
When I paint my object is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for. In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish: love must be proved by facts and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
Mathematics, trigonometry, chemistry, psychoanalysis, music and whatnot, have been related to cubism to give it an easier interpretation. All this has been pure literature, not to say nonsense, which brought bad results, blinding people with theories.
Arts of transition do not exist. In the chronological history of art there are periods which are more positive, more complete than others. This means that there are periods in which there are better artists than in others.
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