Pablo Picasso Quotes

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

I can't copy nature.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and - to perfect it.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.