Monday, February 28, 2011

Pablo Picasso Quotes

Famous art quotes by the famous Spanish Artist Pablo Picasso:

Popular Pablo Picasso paintings: "Family of Saltimbanques", "Guernica",
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", and "Three Musicians".


* Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

* Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

* Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

* Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

* Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

* If there is something to steal, I steal it!.

* I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

* I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

* Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

* Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

* Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

* Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding.

* People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.

* Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

* There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

* The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

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

* Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Dear Artist Friends if you know of some more Quotes by this Great Artist, please contribute them here with your names.

Together make this Earth a true Heaven!

LifeIsArt

Author & Editor

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