A biography for Pablo Picassohasn’t been written yet.
“Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?”
“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.”
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso”
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
“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 end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”
“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.”
“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.”
“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.”
“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”
“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”
“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.”
“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.”
“אמי אמרה לי: 'אם תגדל להיות חייל, תהפוך לגנרל. אם תגדל להיות נזיר, תהפוך לאפיפיור'. במקום זאת, גדלתי להיות צייר והפכתי לפיקאסו.”
“לצערי אין לי הזכות להימנות על גזע נאצל זה.”
“זה לא אומר לי כלום. אין לי דעה על כך, ולא אכפת לי.”
“גאוניותו של איינשטיין היא שהביאה להירושימה.”