3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso 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, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso 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.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso 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.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
