Pablo Picasso Quotes

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

I can paint in jail.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

If people looked at me like I was a little different, I would maybe sit next to them, and I would draw.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Sometimes I like to draw.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.