Pablo Picasso Quotes 1–30 of 104 Quotes
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish artist who lived and worked in Paris for many years. Around 1906–1908 together with Georges Braque Picasso initiated cubism, based on a strong inspiration of Paul Cézanne's work.
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“Among the several sins that I have been accused of committing, none is more false than the one that I have, as the principal objective in my work, the spirit of research. 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... [Paris 1923].”
— Pablo Picasso
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Quote source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1920s As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311
“When I hear people speak of the evolution of an artist, it seems to me that they are considering him standing between two mirrors that face each other and reproduce his image an infinite number of times, and that they contemplate the successive images of one mirror as his past, and the images of the other mirror as his future, while his real image is taken as his present. They do not consider that they all are the same images in different planes... [Paris 1923].”
— Pablo Picasso
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Quote source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1920s As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311
“They speak of naturalism in opposition to modern painting. I would like to know if anyone has ever seen a natural work of art. Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. Velasquez left us his idea of the people of his epoch. Undoubtedly they were different from what he painted them, but we cannot conceive a Philip IV in any other way than the one Velasquez painted... [Paris 1923].”
— Pablo Picasso
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Quote source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1920s As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 312
“I can hardly understand the importance given to the word research in connection with modern painting. In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing. Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the purse that fortune should put in his path. The one who finds something no matter what it might be, even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Quote source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1920s, "Picasso Speaks" (1923):
"Picasso Speaks" in The Arts, vol. 3, ed. Marius de Zayas, New York, May 1923. pp. 315-329; Reprinted in Alfred Barr: Picasso, New York 1946, pp. 270–1 p. 315
“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.”
— Pablo Picasso
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"Picasso Speaks" in The Arts, vol. 3, ed. Marius de Zayas, New York, May 1923. pp. 315-329; Reprinted in Alfred Barr: Picasso, New York 1946, pp. 270–1 p. 315.
“Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?”
— Pablo Picasso
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"Picasso Speaks" in The Arts, vol. 3, ed. Marius de Zayas, New York, May 1923. pp. 315-329; Reprinted in Alfred Barr: Picasso, New York 1946, pp. 270–1 p. 319.
“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.”
— Pablo Picasso
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"Picasso Speaks" in The Arts, vol. 3, ed. Marius de Zayas, New York, May 1923. pp. 315-329; Reprinted in Alfred Barr: Picasso, New York 1946, pp. 270–1 p. 391.
“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.”
— Pablo Picasso
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"Picasso Speaks" in The Arts, vol. 3, ed. Marius de Zayas, New York, May 1923. pp. 315-329; Reprinted in Alfred Barr: Picasso, New York 1946, pp. 270–1 p. 323.
“Mathematics, trigonometry, chemistry, psychoanalysis, music, and what not 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. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1920s, 'The Arts', New York, May 1923: As quoted by Marius de Zayas, in 'The Arts', New York, May 1923
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“And from the point of view of art there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. That those lies are necessary to our mental selves is beyond any doubt, as it is through them that we form our aesthetic point of view of life. (Paris 1923)”
— Pablo Picasso
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Source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1920s, 'The Arts', New York, May 1923: As quoted by Marius de Zayas, in 'The Arts', New York, May 1923
“I also often hear the word 'evolution'. Repeatedly I am asked to explain how my painting evolved. To me there is no past or future in my 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 than it ever was. Art does not evolve by itself, the ideas of people change and with them their mode of expression. (Paris 1923)”
— Pablo Picasso
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Source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1920s, 'The Arts', New York, May 1923: As quoted by Marius de Zayas, in 'The Arts', New York, May 1923
“I do not believe I have used radically different elements in the different manners I have used in my paintings. If the subjects I have wanted to express have suggested different ways of expression, I have never hesitated to adopt them. I have never made trials nor experiments. Whenever I had something to say I have said it in the manner in which I have felt it ought to be said. Different motives inevitably require different methods of expression. (Paris 1923)”
— Pablo Picasso
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Source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1920s, 'The Arts', New York, May 1923: As quoted by Marius de Zayas, in 'The Arts', New York, May 1923
“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Quote source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1930s Quote, attributed to Picasso in: Jean Cocteau (1932), Opium: The Diary of an Addict. p. 63
“When I went to Trocadéro it was disgusting. ...The smell. I was all alone. I wanted to get away. But... I stayed. ...I understood something very important... was happening to me... The masks... were magical things. ...The Negroes' sculptures were intercessors... Against everything; against unknown threatening spirits. I kept looking at the fetishes. I understood: I too am against everything. I too think everything is unknown, is the enemy! Everything! ...I understood ...the purpose ...all the fetishes were ...weapons. To help people stop being dominated by spirits, to become independent. Tools. If we give form to the spirits, we become independent of them. The spirits, the unconscious... emotion, it's the same thing. I understood why I was a painter. All alone in that awful museum, with the masks, the redskin dolls, the dusty mannequins. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon must have come to me that day, but not at all because of the forms: but because it was my first canvas of exorcism—yes, absolutely!”
— Pablo Picasso
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Quote source: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1930s Interview with André Malraux (1937) describing a 1907 experience in the Palais du Trocadéro ethnographic museum, as quoted by Jean-Louis Paudrat, "From Africa", Primitivism and 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern (1984) ed., William Ruben, Vol. 1, p. 141; and "Discovery of African Art 1906-7", Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art: A Documentary History (2003) ed. Jack Flam, Miriam Deutch, p.34; and in Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Their Friendship (2003) by Jack Flam, p. 34.
“It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.”
— Pablo Picasso
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More on this quote: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1930s Picasso (1937), quote in: William Rowlandson (2007), Reading Lezama's Paradiso. p. 115.
• Reply by Picasso when he was asked to explain the symbolism in the Guernica.
“...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.”
— Pablo Picasso
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More on this quote: [[ File:Pablo Picasso, summer 1912.jpg|right|thumb|photo of Picasso, sitting in front of his painting 'The Aficionado', in Summer of 1912]], 1930s Paul Jones (2011), The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities. p. 47.
• Other explanation by Picasso of the Guernica.
“But there is one very odd thing - to notice that basically a picture doesn't change, that the first 'vision' remains almost intact, in spite of appearances. I often ponder on a light and a dark when I have put them into a painting; I try hard to break them up by interpolating a color that will create a different effect. When the work is photographed, I note that what I put in to correct my first vision has disappeared, and that, after all, the photographic image corresponds with my first vision before the transformation I insisted on. [Boisgeloup, winter 1934]”
— Pablo Picasso
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“It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit!”
— Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Christian Zervos in: "Conversation avec Picasso," in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, (1935), p. 173-178. Translated in: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. 1946, and republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968), Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 266-273'''; also quoted in: Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the Great Artists – From Blake to Pollock -, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (transl. Daphne Woodward). Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 267).
• (another and longer version:) What a sad fate for a painter who loves blondes, but who refrains from putting them in his picture because they don’t go with the basket of fruit! What misery for a painter who hates apples to be obliged to use them all the time because they go with the cloth! I put everything I love in my paintings. So much the worse for the things, they have only to arrange themselves with one another
• Richard Friendenthal (1963, p. 256).
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“I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. [Boisgeloup, winter 1934].”
— Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Christian Zervos in: "Conversation avec Picasso," in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, (1935), p. 173-178. Translated in: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. 1946, and republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968), Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 266-273'''; also quoted in: Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the Great Artists – From Blake to Pollock -, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (transl. Daphne Woodward). Richard Friendenthal (1963, p. 256).
“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact (Boisgeloup, winter 1934).”
— Pablo Picasso
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“Abstract art is only painting. What about drama? There is no abstract art. You always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Christian Zervos in: "Conversation avec Picasso," in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, (1935), p. 173-178. Translated in: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. 1946, and republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968), Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 266-273'''; also quoted in: Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the Great Artists – From Blake to Pollock -, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (transl. Daphne Woodward). Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 270).
• Other translation:
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality.
• Richard Friedenthal (1968, p. 256-7).
• Longer version:
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint. It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.. .Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. In my paintings of Dinard, as in my paintings of Purville, I have given expression to more or less the same vision.. .. You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only (Boisgeloup, winter 1934).
• As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 313
“Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms, well then think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affects us more or less intensely. [Boisgeloup, winter 1934].”
— Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Christian Zervos in: "Conversation avec Picasso," in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, (1935), p. 173-178. Translated in: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. 1946, and republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968), Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 266-273'''; also quoted in: Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the Great Artists – From Blake to Pollock -, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (transl. Daphne Woodward). Richard Friedenthal, (1963, pp. 257-258).
“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don’t misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their [Boisgeloup, winter 1934]”
— Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Christian Zervos in: "Conversation avec Picasso," in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, (1935), p. 173-178. Translated in: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. 1946, and republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968), Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 266-273'''; also quoted in: Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the Great Artists – From Blake to Pollock -, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (transl. Daphne Woodward). Richard Friedenthal, (1963, p. 258)
“It is not what the artist does that counts. But what he is. Cézanne would never have interested me if he had lived and thought like Jaques-Emile Blanche, even if the apple he had painted had been ten times more beautiful. What interests us is the anxiety of Cézanne, the teaching of Cézanne, the anguish of Van Gogh, in short the inner drama of the man. The rest is false. [Boisgeloup, winter 1934].”
— Pablo Picasso
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“How can you expect a beholder to experience my picture as I experienced it? A picture comes to me a long time beforehand; who knows how long a time beforehand, I sensed, saw, and painted it and yet the next day even I do not understand what I have done. How can anyone penetrate my dreams, my instincts, my desires, my thought, which have taken a long time to fashion themselves and come to the surface, above all to grasp what I put there, perhaps involuntary.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Christian Zervos in: "Conversation avec Picasso," in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, (1935), p. 173-178. Translated in: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. 1946, and republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968), Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 266-273'''; also quoted in: Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the Great Artists – From Blake to Pollock -, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (transl. Daphne Woodward). Richard Friedenthal, (1963, p. 260).
“I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Christian Zervos in: "Conversation avec Picasso," in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, (1935), p. 173-178. Translated in: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. 1946, and republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968), Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 266-273'''; also quoted in: Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the Great Artists – From Blake to Pollock -, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (transl. Daphne Woodward). Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 271).
“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Christian Zervos in: "Conversation avec Picasso," in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, (1935), p. 173-178. Translated in: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. 1946, and republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968), Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 266-273'''; also quoted in: Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the Great Artists – From Blake to Pollock -, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (transl. Daphne Woodward). Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 271), quoted in Chipp (1978, 266); As cited in: Constance Milbrath (1998), Patterns of Artistic Development in Children, p. 257.
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