Pablo Picasso Quotes

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

I like to think of an image as different from a photo.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.