Pablo Picasso Quotes

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

My Ready-Mades have nothing to do with the 'objet trouve' because the so-called 'found object' is completely directed by personal taste. Personal taste decides that this is a beautiful object and is unique.

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

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.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'