Pablo Picasso Quotes About Painting
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).
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When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
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Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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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.
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The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
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As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
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I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.
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We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.
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A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.
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