Pablo Picasso Quotes About Reality

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  • An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

  • Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

  • Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

    "Conversation avec Picasso". Interview with Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, Volume X, No. 7-10 (pp. 173-178), 1935; later quoted in Richard Friedenthal "Letters of the Great Artists From Blake to Pollock" translated by Daphne Woodward (pp. 256-257), 1963.
  • To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

    Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult
  • Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

    Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult
  • Everything you can imagine is real.

  • For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

    Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press
  • Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

    Pablo Picasso, Anatoli Podoksik (1996). “Pablo Picasso: the creative eye (from 1881 to 1914)”, Parkstone Press
  • You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

  • There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

    Pablo Picasso (1964*). “Picasso and Man”
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