Pablo Picasso Quotes

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music.

I paint my own reality.

For me going solo meant freedom to collaborate and do whatever I feel I'm good at doing. For me it was really not ever expanding as an artist, developing everything from my songwriting to my singing to my mission statement to my vision. I've been so inspired by all the creative freedom that it brings that I have no complaints.

Painting is a state of being.

I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

Art never expresses anything but itself.