There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes
Pablo PicassoWhen you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.
Pablo PicassoIt's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .
Pablo PicassoWhen I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
Pablo PicassoThere's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
Pablo PicassoAll children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
Pablo PicassoStyle is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
Pablo PicassoNever permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo PicassoDisciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo PicassoYou must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
Pablo PicassoMy friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
Pablo PicassoThere is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo PicassoManifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
Pablo PicassoIf I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo PicassoPainting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
Pablo PicassoEveryone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo PicassoThe academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
Pablo PicassoI have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
Pablo PicassoWe must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo PicassoWhen you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.
Pablo Picasso