Pablo Picasso

1:I wish I could paint like a child ~ Pablo Picasso,

2:Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso,

3:Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. ~ Pablo Picasso,

4:The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~ Pablo Picasso,

5:Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso,

6:Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~ Pablo Picasso, [T5],

7:The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." ~ Pablo Picasso, (1881 - 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer, spent most of his adult life in France, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Wikipedia.,

* WISDOM TROVE *

1:Youth has no age. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

2:All art is erotic. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

3:To find is the thing. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

4:I do not evolve, I AM. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

5:I do not seek. I find. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

6:All children are artists. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

7:Art is a leap into the dark. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

8:I am exhausted if I don't work. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

9:If I don't have red, I use blue. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

10:You don't make art, you find it. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

11:Don't waste your youth growing up. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

12:Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

13:Lord, protect me from what I want! ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

14:We don't grow older we grow riper. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

15:When I haven't any blue I use red. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

16:Why assume that to look is to see? ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

17:Everything you can imagine is real. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

18:My hand tells me what I’m thinking. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

19:The path to youth takes a lifetime. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

20:Everything we can dream can be real. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

21:If you can imagine it... it is real. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

22:Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

23:It takes a long time to become young. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

24:Good taste is the enemy of creativity. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

25:Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

26:Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

27:Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

28:I draw like other people bite their nails. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

29:This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

30:To draw you must close your eyes and sing. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

31:The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

32:In art, practice always comes before theory. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

33:The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

34:I don't work from nature, I work like nature. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

35:Action is the foundational key to all success. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

36:One must act in painting as in life, directly. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

37:I don't say everything, but I paint everything. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

38:Paradise is to love many things with a passion. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

39:We have a lot of reasons but only one real one. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

40:Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

41:If you don't know what color to take, take black. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

42:Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

43:There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

44:Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

45:Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

46:I want to live like a poor man with lots of money. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

47:Music and art are the guiding lights of the world. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

48:Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

49:I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

50:Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

51:We are all born children- the trick is remaining one. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

52:Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

53:It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

54:Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

55:Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

56:I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

57:Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them! ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

58:Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

59:If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

60:Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

61:When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

62:Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

63:A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

64:There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

65:The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

66:The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

67:Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

68:Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

69:To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

70:To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

71:Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

72:Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

73:Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

74:What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

75:You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

76:Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

77:I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

78:A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

79:Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

80:To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

81:You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

82:I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

83:If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

84:The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

85:What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

86:The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

87:A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

88:What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

89:While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

90:Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

91:There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

92:To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

93:The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

94:In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

95:Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

96:Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

97:Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

98:I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

99:It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

100:To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

101:Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

102:We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

103:You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

104:If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

105:People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

106:I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

107:An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

108:The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

109:Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

110:Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

111:Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

112:Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

113:He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

114:I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

115:There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

116:They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

117:Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

118:I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

119:Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

120:That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

121:An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

122:One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

123:You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

124:The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

125:There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

126:If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

127:I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

128:One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

129:When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

130:I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

131:Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

132:Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

133:To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

134: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. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

135:I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

136: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. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

137:You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

138:We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

139:Style 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-picasso, @wisdomtrove

140:When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

141: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. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

142:When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

143: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." ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

144:Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

145:My mother said to me, &

146:Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

147: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. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

148: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. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

149:When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

150:All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

151:In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

152: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. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

153:We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

154:It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

155:We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

156:A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

157:Never 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-picasso, @wisdomtrove

158:What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

159:I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

160:What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

161:If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

162:The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove

163:Cézanne would never have interested me if he had lived and thought like Jacques-Émile Blanche, even if the apple he had painted had been ten times more beautiful. What interests us is the anxiety of Cézanne, the teaching of Cézanne, the anguish of Van Gogh, in short the inner drama of the man. The rest is false. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove

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1:Youth has no age. ~ Pablo Picasso,

2:All art is erotic. ~ Pablo Picasso,

3:Imagination is real. ~ Pablo Picasso,

4:Computers are stupid. ~ Pablo Picasso,

5:I don't seek, I find. ~ Pablo Picasso,

6:To find is the thing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

7:All art is subversive. ~ Pablo Picasso,

8:I do not evolve, I AM. ~ Pablo Picasso,

9:I do not evolve, I am. ~ Pablo Picasso,

10:I do not seek. I find. ~ Pablo Picasso,

11:I don't develop; I am. ~ Pablo Picasso,

12:It took me a lifetime. ~ Pablo Picasso,

13:All Children are Artists ~ Pablo Picasso,

14:We have learned nothing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

15:Art is theft.” —Pablo Picasso ~ Anonymous,

16:I'm not a developer; I am. ~ Pablo Picasso,

17:Painting is a jeu d'esprit. ~ Pablo Picasso,

18:Art is a leap into the dark. ~ Pablo Picasso,

19:I am exhausted if I don't work. ~ Pablo Picasso,

20:Sex and art are the same thing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

21:You don't make art, you find it ~ Pablo Picasso,

22:Art is lies that tell the truth. ~ Pablo Picasso,

23:If I don't have red, I use blue. ~ Pablo Picasso,

24:I imitate everyone except myself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

25:In the end there is only Matisse. ~ Pablo Picasso,

26:Don't waste your youth growing up. ~ Pablo Picasso,

27:Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

28:If you can imagine it...it is real ~ Pablo Picasso,

29:Lord, protect me from what I want! ~ Pablo Picasso,

30:We don't grow older we grow riper. ~ Pablo Picasso,

31:When I haven't any blue I use red. ~ Pablo Picasso,

32:Why assume that to look is to see? ~ Pablo Picasso,

33:Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso,

34:It takes a long time to grow young. ~ Pablo Picasso,

35:My hand tells me what I’m thinking. ~ Pablo Picasso,

36:The path to youth takes a lifetime. ~ Pablo Picasso,

37:We don't grow older, we grow riper. ~ Pablo Picasso,

38:Art is a lie that reveals the truth. ~ Pablo Picasso,

39:Everything we can dream can be real. ~ Pablo Picasso,

40:Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso,

41:It takes a long time to become young ~ Pablo Picasso,

42:Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real. ~ Pablo Picasso,

43:To model an object is to possess it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

44:Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. ~ Pablo Picasso,

45:I paint what I think, not what I see. ~ Pablo Picasso,

46:It takes a long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso,

47:People who read are people who dream. ~ Pablo Picasso,

48:Sve što možeš da zamisliš je stvarno. ~ Pablo Picasso,

49:Basically the French are all peasants. ~ Pablo Picasso,

50:Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal ~ Pablo Picasso,

51:Good taste is the enemy of creativity. ~ Pablo Picasso,

52:You can't run a without taking risks. ~ Pablo Picasso,

53:Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass. ~ Pablo Picasso,

54:Good artists copy, great artists steal. ~ Pablo Picasso,

55:Good artists copy; great artists steal. ~ Pablo Picasso,

56:I hate it when people pilfer my things. ~ Pablo Picasso,

57:Action is the foundation of all success. ~ Pablo Picasso,

58:I have had no true friends, only lovers. ~ Pablo Picasso,

59:I want to know one thing, what is color? ~ Pablo Picasso,

60:Love is the greatest refreshment in life ~ Pablo Picasso,

61:Action is the fundamental key to success. ~ Pablo Picasso,

62:Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. ~ Pablo Picasso,

63:Cansei de ser moderno. quero ser eterno". ~ Pablo Picasso,

64:Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. ~ Pablo Picasso,

65:You're either a goddess ... or a doormat. ~ Pablo Picasso,

66:Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ~ Pablo Picasso,

67:I draw like other people bite their nails. ~ Pablo Picasso,

68:It takes a very long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso,

69:The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. ~ Pablo Picasso,

70:This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax. ~ Pablo Picasso,

71:To draw you must close your eyes and sing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

72:To draw, you must close your eyes and sing ~ Pablo Picasso,

73:Good designers copy; great designers steal. ~ Pablo Picasso,

74:If there is something to steal, I steal it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

75:The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. ~ Pablo Picasso,

76:There's nothing more difficult than a line. ~ Pablo Picasso,

77:Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul. ~ Pablo Picasso,

78:In art, practice always comes before theory. ~ Pablo Picasso,

79:The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. ~ Pablo Picasso,

80:The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. ~ Pablo Picasso,

81:All things considered, there is only Matisse. ~ Pablo Picasso,

82:I don't work from nature, I work like nature. ~ Pablo Picasso,

83:If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint. ~ Pablo Picasso,

84:Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole. ~ Jonathan Richman,

85:Action is the foundational key to all success. ~ Pablo Picasso,

86:Ko hoce nadje nacin, ko nece nadje opravdanje. ~ Pablo Picasso,

87:Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. ~ Pablo Picasso,

88:One must act in painting as in life, directly. ~ Pablo Picasso,

89:The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense. ~ Pablo Picasso,

90:The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. ~ Pablo Picasso,

91:The more technique there is, the less there is ~ Pablo Picasso,

92:I don't say everything, but I paint everything. ~ Pablo Picasso,

93:Paradise is to love many things with a passion. ~ Pablo Picasso,

94:We have a lot of reasons but only one real one. ~ Pablo Picasso,

95:A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder ~ Pablo Picasso,

96:Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons. ~ Pablo Picasso,

97:Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~ Pablo Picasso,

98:When you're really young, you're young for life. ~ Pablo Picasso,

99:If you don't know what color to take, take black. ~ Pablo Picasso,

100:Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness. ~ Pablo Picasso,

101:There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. ~ Pablo Picasso,

102:Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso,

103:I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~ Pablo Picasso,

104:If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake. ~ Pablo Picasso,

105:Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. ~ Pablo Picasso,

106:I want to live like a poor man with lots of money. ~ Pablo Picasso,

107:L'art lave notre âme de la poussière du quotidien. ~ Pablo Picasso,

108:Music and art are the guiding lights of the world. ~ Pablo Picasso,

109:There are more copies than originals among people. ~ Pablo Picasso,

110:To be young, really young, takes a very long time. ~ Pablo Picasso,

111:Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good. ~ Pablo Picasso,

112:Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working. ~ Pablo Picasso,

113:Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~ Pablo Picasso,

114:I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

115:Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? ~ Pablo Picasso,

116:Without great solitude no serious work is possible. ~ Pablo Picasso,

117:Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ~ Pablo Picasso,

118:Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working. ~ Pablo Picasso,

119:Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. ~ Pablo Picasso,

120:A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else. ~ Pablo Picasso,

121:Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ~ Pablo Picasso,

122:I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money. ~ Pablo Picasso,

123:In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. ~ Pablo Picasso,

124:It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals. ~ Pablo Picasso,

125:We are all born children- the trick is remaining one. ~ Pablo Picasso,

126:Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~ Pablo Picasso,

127:Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life ~ Pablo Picasso,

128:I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. ~ Pablo Picasso,

129:It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. ~ Pablo Picasso,

130:The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. ~ Pablo Picasso,

131:Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. ~ Pablo Picasso,

132:Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Pablo Picasso,

133:I am only a public entertainer who understands his time. ~ Pablo Picasso,

134:I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. ~ Pablo Picasso,

135:[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am ~ Pablo Picasso,

136:If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it? ~ Pablo Picasso,

137:Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them! ~ Pablo Picasso,

138:They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans. ~ Pablo Picasso,

139:Blandt mennesker er der langt flere kopier end originaler. ~ Pablo Picasso,

140:Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ~ Pablo Picasso,

141:Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers. ~ Pablo Picasso,

142:For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

143:If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. ~ Pablo Picasso,

144:One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live? ~ Pablo Picasso,

145:Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding. ~ Pablo Picasso,

146:So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers. ~ Pablo Picasso,

147:There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats. ~ Pablo Picasso,

148:We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

149:When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation. ~ Pablo Picasso,

150:Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. ~ Pablo Picasso,

151:A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. ~ Pablo Picasso,

152:I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money. ~ Pablo Picasso,

153:If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you. ~ Pablo Picasso,

154:It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is. ~ Pablo Picasso,

155:It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is. ~ Pablo Picasso,

156:There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. ~ Pablo Picasso,

157:If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake. ~ Pablo Picasso,

158:If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art. ~ Pablo Picasso,

159:The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. ~ Pablo Picasso,

160:The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. ~ Pablo Picasso,

161:Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. ~ Pablo Picasso,

162:Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness. ~ Pablo Picasso,

163:To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. ~ Pablo Picasso,

164:To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

165:Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth. ~ Pablo Picasso,

166:For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats. ~ Pablo Picasso,

167:Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. PABLO PICASSO ~ Julia Cameron,

168:For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography ~ Pablo Picasso,

169:Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

170:Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

171:Learn the rule like a pro so you can break them like an artist. ~ Pablo Picasso,

172:Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality. ~ Pablo Picasso,

173:I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

174:Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? ~ Pablo Picasso,

175:What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. ~ Pablo Picasso,

176:You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words. ~ Pablo Picasso,

177:Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more. ~ Pablo Picasso,

178:I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

179:Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. ~ Pablo Picasso,

180:On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard ~ Pablo Picasso,

181:I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

182:Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ~ Pablo Picasso,

183:A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. ~ Pablo Picasso,

184:The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~ Pablo Picasso,

185:Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. ~ Pablo Picasso,

186:To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. ~ Pablo Picasso,

187:When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me. ~ Pablo Picasso,

188:You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. ~ Pablo Picasso,

189:I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

190:I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

191:One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. ~ Pablo Picasso,

192:The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm. ~ Pablo Picasso,

193:If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. ~ Pablo Picasso,

194:It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care. ~ Pablo Picasso,

195:It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues. ~ Pablo Picasso,

196:Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. ~ Pablo Picasso,

197:People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous! ~ Pablo Picasso,

198:The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~ Pablo Picasso,

199:If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing ~ Pablo Picasso,

200:What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. ~ Pablo Picasso,

201:What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

202:When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. ~ Pablo Picasso,

203:Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. ~ Pablo Picasso,

204:The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all. ~ Pablo Picasso,

205:A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody. ~ Pablo Picasso,

206:Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso,

207:For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline. ~ Pablo Picasso,

208:What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

209:While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. ~ Pablo Picasso,

210:Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. ~ Pablo Picasso,

211:learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist. ~ Pablo Picasso,

212:Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone ~ Pablo Picasso,

213:Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~ Pablo Picasso,

214:The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. ~ Pablo Picasso,

215:There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others. ~ Pablo Picasso,

216:The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~ Pablo Picasso,

217:To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. ~ Pablo Picasso,

218:When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~ Pablo Picasso,

219:Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand. ~ Pablo Picasso,

220:Siempre estoy haciendo cosas que no puedo hacer, así es como logro hacerlas. ~ Pablo Picasso,

221:The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. ~ Pablo Picasso,

222:Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso ~ Pablo Picasso,

223:The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face. ~ Pablo Picasso,

224:Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. ~ Pablo Picasso,

225:Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath. ~ Pablo Picasso,

226:In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. ~ Pablo Picasso,

227:When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately. ~ Pablo Picasso,

228:Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? ~ Pablo Picasso,

229:Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? ~ Pablo Picasso,

230:I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it ~ Pablo Picasso,

231:It is a miracle that one does not dissolve into one's bath like a lump of sugar. ~ Pablo Picasso,

232:The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away ~ Pablo Picasso,

233:Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time. ~ Pablo Picasso,

234:Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ~ Pablo Picasso,

235:Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~ Pablo Picasso,

236:I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

237:The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~ Pablo Picasso,

238:The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away. ~ Pablo Picasso,

239:Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso,

240:I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

241:It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. ~ Pablo Picasso,

242:Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. —PABLO PICASSO ~ Timothy Ferriss,

243:To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. ~ Pablo Picasso,

244:I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. ~ Pablo Picasso,

245:Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” —Pablo Picasso ~ Timothy Ferriss,

246:Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not ~ Pablo Picasso,

247:We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. ~ Pablo Picasso,

248:I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso. ~ Bob Mayer,

249:Impara le regole come un professionista, in modo da poterle rompere come un artista. ~ Pablo Picasso,

250:Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~ Pablo Picasso, [T5],

251:Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ~ Pablo Picasso,

252:Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot. ~ Pablo Picasso,

253:You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. ~ Pablo Picasso,

254:I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso. ~ Bob Mayer,

255:I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else.”-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17 ~ Pablo Picasso,

256:I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

257:If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. ~ Pablo Picasso,

258:I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I. ~ Pablo Picasso,

259:I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. ~ Pablo Picasso,

260:Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. ~ Pablo Picasso,

261:But they are useless. They can only give you answers.” —Pablo Picasso, on computers ~ Erik Brynjolfsson,

262:If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three. ~ Pablo Picasso,

263:But they are useless. They can only give you answers.” —Pablo Picasso, on computers1 ~ Erik Brynjolfsson,

264:Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects ~ Pablo Picasso,

265:When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid. ~ Pablo Picasso,

266:Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. —Pablo Picasso ~ David Kadavy,

267:We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France) ~ Pablo Picasso,

268:People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age... ~ Pablo Picasso,

269:All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? ~ Pablo Picasso,

270:Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. ~ Pablo Picasso,

271:I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ~ Pablo Picasso,

272:Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting. ~ Pablo Picasso,

273:In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. ~ Pablo Picasso,

274:The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. ~ Pablo Picasso,

275:An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. ~ Pablo Picasso,

276:Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up. —Pablo Picasso ~ Sophia Amoruso,

277:For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart ~ Pablo Picasso,

278:People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age... ~ Pablo Picasso,

279:The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child. ~ Pablo Picasso,

280:The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. ~ Pablo Picasso,

281:If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness! ~ Pablo Picasso,

282:Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels. ~ Pablo Picasso,

283:You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

284:Jedes Kind ist ein Künstler. Das Problem ist, ein Künstler zu bleiben, wenn du erwachsen bist. ~ Pablo Picasso,

285:What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. ~ Pablo Picasso,

286:Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs. ~ Pablo Picasso,

287:As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal. ~ Daniel Coyle,

288:Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. ~ Pablo Picasso,

289:Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. PABLO PICASSO ~ Julia Cameron,

290:Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ~ Pablo Picasso,

291:There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too. ~ Pablo Picasso,

292:Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. ~ Pablo Picasso,

293:I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —PABLO PICASSO ~ John F Demartini,

294:It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. ~ Pablo Picasso,

295:I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

296:I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place. ~ Pablo Picasso,

297:There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes ~ Pablo Picasso,

298:What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists. ~ Pablo Picasso,

299:When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays. ~ Pablo Picasso,

300:He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. ~ Pablo Picasso,

301:I AM ALWAYS DOING THAT WHICH I CANNOT DO, IN ORDER THAT I MAY LEARN HOW TO DO IT. –PABLO PICASSO ~ Terri Savelle Foy,

302:I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

303:It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. ~ Pablo Picasso,

304:My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art. ~ Pablo Picasso,

305:They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. ~ Pablo Picasso,

306:Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty. ~ Pablo Picasso,

307:How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue. ~ Pablo Picasso,

308:I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance. ~ Pablo Picasso,

309:"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance. ~ Pablo Picasso,

310:As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done ~ Pablo Picasso,

311:Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ~ Pablo Picasso,

312:The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever. ~ Pablo Picasso,

313:When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. ~ Pablo Picasso,

314:Pablo Picasso said that “all children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. ~ Garr Reynolds,

315:People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. ~ Pablo Picasso,

316:There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes ~ Pablo Picasso,

317:Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. ~ Pablo Picasso,

318:A morte não é a maior perda da vida. A maior perda da vida é o que morre dentro de nós enquanto vivemos... ~ Pablo Picasso,

319:That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working. ~ Pablo Picasso,

320:The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. ~ Paul Johnson,

321:An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought ~ Pablo Picasso,

322:An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. ~ Pablo Picasso,

323:A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. ~ Pablo Picasso,

324:No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso,

325:One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. ~ Pablo Picasso,

326:You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. ~ Pablo Picasso,

327:The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. ~ Pablo Picasso,

328:There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ~ Pablo Picasso,

329:And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. ~ Pablo Picasso,

330:A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. ~ Pablo Picasso,

331:If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. ~ Pablo Picasso,

332:I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. ~ Pablo Picasso,

333:The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. ~ Pablo Picasso,

334:We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities. ~ Pablo Picasso,

335:Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. ~ Pablo Picasso,

336:Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper. ~ Pablo Picasso,

337:If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922. ~ Pablo Picasso,

338:Kažete da ste neshvaćeni mladi prijatelju.
Strpite se.
I dijamant je u osnovu ugljenik, ali je umeo da čeka. ~ Pablo Picasso,

339:The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

340:I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another. ~ Pablo Picasso,

341:One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. ~ Pablo Picasso,

342:The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

343:The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

344:We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) ~ Henri Rousseau,

345:When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us. ~ Pablo Picasso,

346:When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg. ~ Pablo Picasso,

347:Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Lauren ~ Viola Shipman,

348:We’re constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins. ~ Pablo Picasso,

349:I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

350:When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

351:I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! ~ Pablo Picasso,

352:Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude. ~ Pablo Picasso,

353:Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. ~ Pablo Picasso,

354:Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). ~ Pablo Picasso,

355:The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

356:To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all. ~ Pablo Picasso,

357:I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use. ~ Pablo Picasso,

358:Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica). ~ Pablo Picasso,

359:Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. ~ Pablo Picasso,

360:When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

361:I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should. ~ Pablo Picasso,

362:When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. ~ Pablo Picasso,

363:You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better. ~ Frank Stella,

364:You have to wake people up! To revolutionize their way of identifying things...you've got to create images they won't accept. ~ Pablo Picasso,

365:Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art. ~ Pablo Picasso,

366:From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. ~ Pablo Picasso,

367:Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso,

368: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

369:I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else. ~ Pablo Picasso,

370:We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. ~ Pablo Picasso,

371:I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. ~ Pablo Picasso,

372: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

373:Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. ~ Pablo Picasso,

374:Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. ~ Pablo Picasso,

375:If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false. ~ Pablo Picasso,

376:There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color? ~ Pablo Picasso,

377:You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only. ~ Pablo Picasso,

378:«El arte abstracto no existe. Siempre tienes que empezar por algo y, luego, puedes eliminar cualquier rasgo de realidad.» Pablo Picasso ~ Guy Kawasaki,

379:Style 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 Picasso,

380:People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

381:When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. ~ Pablo Picasso,

382:I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. ~ Pablo Picasso,

383:I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future. ~ Pablo Picasso,

384:The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future. ~ Pablo Picasso,

385:Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names. ~ Pablo Picasso,

386:When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.' ~ Pablo Picasso,

387:Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. ~ Pablo Picasso,

388:I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull. ~ Pablo Picasso,

389:God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. ~ Pablo Picasso,

390:In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall. ~ Pablo Picasso,

391:You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting. ~ Pablo Picasso,

392:Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso. ~ Alice Cooper,

393: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

394:The hours count. The minutes count. Do not let this crime against humanity take place. -- Pablo Picasso, on the Rosenbergs, L'Humanité, May 1951 ~ Jillian Cantor,

395:There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us. ~ Pablo Picasso,

396:If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again. ~ Pablo Picasso,

397:It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good. ~ Pablo Picasso,

398:They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never. ~ Pablo Picasso,

399:Pablo Picasso brilliantly anticipated this inversion in 1964 when he told the writer William Fifield, “Computers are useless. They only give you answers.” So ~ Kevin Kelly,

400:When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. ~ Pablo Picasso,

401:Everyone 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 Picasso,

402:Manifesting 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 Picasso,

403:My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ~ Pablo Picasso,

404:The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. ~ Pablo Picasso,

405:When 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 Picasso,

406: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

407:How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously? ~ Pablo Picasso,

408: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." ~ Pablo Picasso,

409:We 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 Picasso,

410:Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers. ~ Pablo Picasso,

411:Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. ~ Pablo Picasso,

412:I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

413:El artista es un receptáculo de emociones que vienen de cualquier sitio: del cielo, de la tierra, de un pedazo de papel, de una sombra pasajera o de una telaraña. ~ Pablo Picasso,

414:If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story. ~ Pablo Picasso,

415:Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. ~ Pablo Picasso,

416: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

417:My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ~ Pablo Picasso,

418:My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ~ Pablo Picasso,

419:By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time. ~ Pablo Picasso,

420:It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule. ~ Pablo Picasso,

421:Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. ~ Pablo Picasso,

422:There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun ~ Pablo Picasso,

423:Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice. ~ Pablo Picasso,

424:Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso,

425:Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. ~ Pablo Picasso,

426:Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime. ~ Pablo Picasso,

427: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

428: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

429:When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint. ~ Pablo Picasso,

430:Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. ~ Pablo Picasso,

431:Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance. ~ Pablo Picasso,

432:What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man. ~ Pablo Picasso,

433:Picasso had a saying—“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. —Steve Jobs, misattributing a quote to Pablo Picasso ~ Graham Moore,

434:Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it. ~ Jonathan Richman,

435:All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art. ~ Pablo Picasso,

436:It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further. ~ Pablo Picasso,

437:Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important. ~ Pablo Picasso,

438:It'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 Picasso,

439:When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ~ Pablo Picasso,

440:The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless. ~ Pablo Picasso,

441:The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira! ~ Pablo Picasso,

442:I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes. ~ Pablo Picasso,

443:Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research. ~ Pablo Picasso,

444:In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. ~ Pablo Picasso,

445:The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust. ~ Pablo Picasso,

446: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,

447:I flipped it over: Ping Xi's business card with his name, number, e-mail address, and the corniest quotation I'd ever read: "Every act of creation is an act of destruction.—Pablo Picasso ~ Ottessa Moshfegh,

448: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

449:Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. —Pablo Picasso artist ~ Kathryn Petras,

450:...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order. ~ Pablo Picasso,

451:We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone. ~ Pablo Picasso,

452:Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out. ~ Pablo Picasso,

453:I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. ~ Pablo Picasso,

454:It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream. ~ Pablo Picasso,

455:I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire. ~ Pablo Picasso,

456:Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on. ~ Pablo Picasso,

457:You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things. ~ Pablo Picasso,

458:We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. ~ Pablo Picasso,

459:The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves. ~ Pablo Picasso,

460:I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics. ~ Pablo Picasso,

461:It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them. ~ Pablo Picasso,

462:I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. ~ Pablo Picasso,

463:Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman. ~ Pablo Picasso,

464:We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. ~ Pablo Picasso,

465:You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer. ~ Pablo Picasso,

466:A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it ~ Pablo Picasso,

467: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

468:If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean. ~ Pablo Picasso,

469: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

470:The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. ~ Joseph Campbell,

471:Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work. ~ Pablo Picasso,

472:To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. ~ Pablo Picasso,

473:Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse. ~ Pablo Picasso,

474:Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

475:To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ~ Pablo Picasso,

476:We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. ~ Pablo Picasso,

477:I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality. ~ Pablo Picasso,

478:I 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 Picasso,

479:No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid. ~ Pablo Picasso,

480:A piece of space-dust falls on your head once every day… With every breath, we inhale a bit of the story of our universe, our planet’s past and future, the smells and stories of the world around us, even the seeds of life. ~ Pablo Picasso,

481:Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

482:Never 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 Picasso,

483:Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Pablo Picasso,

484:...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state. ~ Pablo Picasso,

485:If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was. ~ Pablo Picasso,

486:I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same. ~ Pablo Picasso,

487:I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate. ~ Pablo Picasso,

488:What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that. ~ Pablo Picasso,

489:Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age. ~ Pablo Picasso,

490:What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

491:Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. ~ Pablo Picasso,

492:Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents. ~ Pablo Picasso,

493: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? ~ Pablo Picasso,

494:Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves. ~ Pablo Picasso,

495: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

496:I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly. ~ Pablo Picasso,

497:When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. ~ Pablo Picasso,

498: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

499:For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping ~ Pablo Picasso,

500:What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ~ Pablo Picasso,

501:What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ~ Pablo Picasso,

502: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

503:A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be. ~ Lyndon B Johnson,

504:I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection. ~ Pablo Picasso,

505:When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace. ~ Pablo Picasso,

506:Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. ~ Pablo Picasso,

507:I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face. ~ Pablo Picasso,

508:When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you ~ Pablo Picasso,

509: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

510:Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses. ~ Pablo Picasso,

511:In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange. ~ Werner Herzog,

512: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

513: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

514:You 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 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 Picasso,

515:What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ~ Pablo Picasso,

516:My 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 Picasso,

517:You 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 Picasso,

518:If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are. ~ Pablo Picasso,

519:To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was. ~ Pablo Picasso,

520:Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility." ~ Joan D Chittister,

521: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

522:To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was. ~ Pablo Picasso,

523:If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful. ~ Pablo Picasso,

524:Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. ~ Pablo Picasso,

525:The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously. ~ Pablo Picasso,

526:I will never get tired of looking at works by Pablo Picasso. I will never get tired of looking at work by Francis Bacon or Henry Moore or Francisco Goya. You cannot tire of the work these people have made because you can look it over and over again - the same thing - and always see something different. ~ Polly Allen Mellen,

527:If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance. ~ Pablo Picasso,

528:Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. ~ Pablo Picasso,

529:I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones. ~ Pablo Picasso,

530: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. ~ Pablo Picasso,

531:Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else. ~ Pablo Picasso,

532:I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection. We even shared a common reading of the history of art. It would never have crossed Yves's mind to say to me, "Ah, I saw a Pablo Picasso . . ." He knew perfectly well what was interesting with Picasso, as did I. ~ Pierre Berge,

533:Belief #6: Work is play. Do you know any person who has achieved massive success by doing what he hates? I don’t. One of the keys to success is making a successful marriage between what you do and what you love. Pablo Picasso once said, “When I work, I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.” Maybe ~ Anthony Robbins,

534:How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster. ~ Pablo Picasso,

535:Genet worked as a prostitute and robbed his clients, and then used the time in jail to write books,” I continued. “The weird thing is that even after he got wealthy, he would still go into stores and steal random stuff that he didn’t need. Pablo Picasso personally bailed him out of jail once…It just doesn’t make any sense,” I concluded. ~ Hope Jahren,

536:Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things? ~ Pablo Picasso,

537:What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world. ~ Pablo Picasso,

538:A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right. ~ James A Baldwin,

539:Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands. ~ Pablo Picasso,

540:In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend! ~ Pablo Picasso,

541:It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

542:The 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 Picasso,

543:The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso. ~ Pablo Picasso,

544:What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements. ~ Pablo Picasso,

545:Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paints. You's have a great time hanging out all day with Picasso, and then you's go home nervous and exhausted, and Picasso would go back to his studio and paint all night, using the energy he'd sucked out of you. ~ Austin Kleon,

546:It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact. ~ Pablo Picasso,

547:What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself. ~ Pablo Picasso,

548:When Pablo Picasso was an old man, he was sitting in a café in Spain, doodling on a used napkin. He was nonchalant about the whole thing, drawing whatever amused him in that moment—kind of the same way teenage boys draw penises on bathroom stalls—except this was Picasso, so his bathroom-stall penises were more like cubist/impressionist awesomeness laced on top of faint coffee stains. ~ Mark Manson,

549:When 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,

550:I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now. ~ Pablo Picasso,

551:He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head. ~ Pablo Picasso,

552:A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it. ~ Pablo Picasso,

553:You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him. ~ Pablo Picasso,

554:We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. ~ Pablo Picasso,

555:Having studied art history, as opposed to political history, I tend to incorporate found objects into my books. Just as Pablo Picasso glued a fragment of furniture onto the canvas of Still Life with Chair Caning, I like to use whatever's lying around to paint pictures of the past--traditional pigment like archival documents but also the added texture of whatever bits and bobs I learn from looking out bus windows or chatting up people I bump into on the road. ~ Sarah Vowell,

556:The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time. ~ Pablo Picasso,

557:But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest. ~ Pablo Picasso,

558:...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. ~ Pablo Picasso,

559:On 26 April 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, Nazi planes, under the orders of General Franco, attacked the Basque capital of Guernica on its market-day, killing 1654 of its 7000 inhabitants. A few months later, Pablo Picasso exhibited Guernica at the International Exhibition in Paris. This modern, secular crucifixion shocked his contemporaries, and yet, like The Waste Land, it was a prophetic statement, and also a rallying cry against the inhumanity of our brave new world. ~ Karen Armstrong,

560:Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence. ~ Pablo Picasso,

561:Els Quatre Gats was just a five-minute walk from our house and one of my favourite haunts. My parents had met there in 1932, and I attributed my one-way ticket into this world in part to the old cafe's charms. Stone dragons guarded a lamplit facade. Inside, voices seemed to echo with shadows of other times. Accountants, dreamers, and would-be geniuses shared tables with the spectres of Pablo Picasso, Isaac Albeniz, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Salvador Dali. There any poor devil could pass for a historical figure for the price of a small coffee. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,

562:Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. ~ Pablo Picasso,

563:What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. ~ Pablo Picasso,

564:was therefore under the complete governance of his mother, a strict Catholic,
who raised him and his older brother and younger sisters in a stern and religious
household. After her husband's departure, Mme Rimbaud became known as
"Widow Rimbaud".
Schooling and teen years (1862–1871)
Fearing that her children were spending too much time with and being overinfluenced by neighbouring children of the poor, Mme Rimbaud moved her family
to the Cours d'Orléans in 1862. This was a better neighborhood, and whereas the
boys were previously taught at home by their mother, they were then sent, at
the ages of nine and eight, to the Pension Rossat. For the five years that they
attended school, however, their formidable mother still imposed her will upon
them, pushing for scholastic success. She would punish her sons by making them
learn a hundred lines of Latin verse by heart and if they gave an inaccurate
recitation, she would deprive them of meals. When Arthur was nine, he wrote a
700-word essay objecting to his having to learn Latin in school. Vigorously
condemning a classical education as a mere gateway to a salaried position,
Rimbaud wrote repeatedly, "I will be a rentier (one who lives off his assets)". He
disliked schoolwork and his mother's continued control and constant supervision;
the children were not allowed to leave their mother's sight, and, until the boys
were sixteen and fifteen respectively, she would walk them home from the school
grounds.
As a boy, Arthur was small, brown-haired and pale with what a childhood friend
called "eyes of pale blue irradiated with dark blue—the loveliest eyes I've seen".
When he was eleven, Arthur had his First Communion; despite his intellectual
and individualistic nature, he was an ardent Catholic like his mother. For this
reason he was called "sale petit Cagot" ("snotty little prig") by his fellow
schoolboys. He and his brother were sent to the Collège de Charleville for school
that same year. Until this time, his reading was confined almost entirely to the
Bible, but he also enjoyed fairy tales and stories of adventure such as the novels
of James Fenimore Cooper and Gustave Aimard. He became a highly successful
student and was head of his class in all subjects but sciences and mathematics.
Many of his schoolmasters remarked upon the young student's ability to absorb
great quantities of material. In 1869 he won eight first prizes in the school,
including the prize for Religious Education, and in 1870 he won seven firsts.
When he had reached the third class, Mme Rimbaud, hoping for a brilliant
scholastic future for her second son, hired a tutor, Father Ariste L'héritier, for
private lessons. Lhéritier succeeded in sparking the young scholar's love of Greek
and Latin as well as French classical literature. He was also the first person to
encourage the boy to write original verse in both French and Latin Rimbaud's first
poem to appear in print was "Les Étrennes des orphelins" ("The Orphans' New
Year's Gift"), which was published in the 2 January 1870 issue of Revue pour
tous. Two weeks after his poem was printed, a new teacher named Georges
Izambard arrived at the Collège de Charleville. Izambard became Rimbaud's
literary mentor and soon a close accord formed between professor and student
and Rimbaud for a short time saw Izambard as a kind of older brother figure. At
the age of fifteen, Rimbaud was showing maturity as a poet; the first poem he
showed Izambard, "Ophélie", would later be included in anthologies as one of
Rimbaud's three or four best poems. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out,
Izambard left Charleville and Rimbaud became despondent. He ran away to Paris
with no money for his ticket and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned for a
week. After returning home, Rimbaud ran away to escape his mother's wrath.
From late October 1870, Rimbaud's behaviour became outwardly provocative; he
drank alcohol, spoke rudely, composed scatological poems, stole books from local
shops, and abandoned his hitherto characteristically neat appearance by allowing
his hair to grow long. At the same time he wrote to Izambard about his method
for attaining poetical transcendence or visionary power through a "long,
intimidating, immense and rational derangement of all the senses. The sufferings
are enormous, but one must be strong, be born a poet, and I have recognized
myself as a poet." It is rumoured that he briefly joined the Paris Commune of
1871, which he portrayed in his poem L'orgie parisienne (ou : Paris se repeuple),
("The Parisian Orgy" or "Paris Repopulates"). Another poem, Le cœur volé ("The
Stolen Heart"), is often interpreted as a description of him being raped by
drunken Communard soldiers, but this is unlikely since Rimbaud continued to
support the Communards and wrote poems sympathetic to their aims.
Life with Verlaine (1871–1875)
Rimbaud was encouraged by friend and office employee Charles Auguste
Bretagne to write to
relationship between the two poets grew increasingly bitter.
By late June 1873, Verlaine grew frustrated with the relationship and returned to
Paris, where he quickly began to mourn Rimbaud's absence. On 8 July, he
telegraphed Rimbaud, instructing him to come to the Hotel Liège in Brussels;
Rimbaud complied at once. The Brussels reunion went badly: they argued
continuously and Verlaine took refuge in heavy drinking. On the morning of 10
July, Verlaine bought a revolver and ammunition. That afternoon, "in a drunken
rage," Verlaine fired two shots at Rimbaud, one of them wounding the 18-yearold in the left wrist.
Rimbaud dismissed the wound as superficial, and did not initially seek to file
charges against Verlaine. But shortly after the shooting, Verlaine (and his
mother) accompanied Rimbaud to a Brussels railway station, where Verlaine
"behaved as if he were insane." His bizarre behavior induced Rimbaud to "fear
that he might give himself over to new excesses," so he turned and ran away. In
his words, "it was then I [Rimbaud] begged a police officer to arrest him
[Verlaine]." Verlaine was arrested for attempted murder and subjected to a
humiliating medico-legal examination. He was also interrogated with regard to
both his intimate correspondence with Rimbaud and his wife's accusations about
the nature of his relationship with Rimbaud. Rimbaud eventually withdrew the
complaint, but the judge nonetheless sentenced Verlaine to two years in prison.
Rimbaud returned home to Charleville and completed his prose work Une Saison
en Enfer ("A Season in Hell")—still widely regarded as one of the pioneering
examples of modern Symbolist writing—which made various allusions to his life
with Verlaine, described as a drôle de ménage ("domestic farce") with his frère
pitoyable ("pitiful brother") and vierge folle ("mad virgin") to whom he was
l'époux infernal ("the infernal groom"). In 1874 he returned to London with the
poet
friend Paul Demeny, the letter expounded his revolutionary theories about poetry
and life, while also denouncing most poets that preceded him. Wishing for new
poetic forms and ideas, he wrote:
I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself
a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every
form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the
poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences. This is an unspeakable
torture during which he needs all his faith and superhuman strength, and during
which he becomes the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed – and
the great learned one! – among men. – For he arrives at the unknown! Because
he has cultivated his own soul – which was rich to begin with – more than any
other man! He reaches the unknown; and even if, crazed, he ends up by losing
the understanding of his visions, at least he has seen them! Let him die charging
through those unutterable, unnameable things: other horrible workers will come;
they will begin from the horizons where he has succumbed!
Rimbaud expounded the same ideas in his poem, "Le bateau ivre" ("The Drunken
Boat"). This hundred-line poem tells the tale of a boat that breaks free of human
society when its handlers are killed by "Redskins" (Peaux-Rouges). At first
thinking that it drifts where it pleases, it soon realizes that it is being guided by
and to the "poem of the sea". It sees visions both magnificent ("the blue and
yellow of singing phosphorescence", "l'éveil jaune et bleu des phosphores
chanteurs",) and disgusting ("nets where a whole Leviathan was rotting" "nasses
/ Où pourrit dans les joncs tout un Léviathan). It ends floating and washed clean,
wishing only to sink and become one with the sea.
Archibald MacLeish has commented on this poem: "Anyone who doubts that
poetry can say what prose cannot has only to read the so-called Lettres du
Voyant and 'Bateau Ivre' together. What is pretentious and adolescent in the
Lettres is true in the poem—unanswerably true."
Rimbaud's poetry influenced the Symbolists, Dadaists and Surrealists, and later
writers adopted not only some of his themes, but also his inventive use of form
and language. French poet
A Winter Dream
In winter we’ll travel in a little pink carriage
With cushions of blue.
We’ll be fine. A nest of mad kisses waits
In each corner too.
You’ll shut your eyes, not to see, through the glass,
Grimacing shadows of evening,
Those snarling monsters, a crowd going past
Of black wolves and black demons.
Then you’ll feel your cheek tickled quite hard…
A little kiss, like a maddened spider,
Will run over your neck…
And you’ll say: “Catch it!” bowing your head,
– And we’ll take our time finding that creature
– Who travels so far…
~ Arthur Rimbaud,

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