Picasso Quotes

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

“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

“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

“Ironically, I believe Picasso was right. I believe we could paint a better world if we learned to see it from all perspectives, as many perspectives as we possibly could. Because diversity is strength. Difference is a teacher. Fear difference, you learn nothing.

Picasso’s mistake was his arrogance. He assumed he could represent all of the perspectives. And our mistake was to invalidate the perspective of a 17-year-old girl because we believed her potential would never equal his.

Hindsight is a gift. Stop wasting my time.

A 17-year-old girl is just never, ever, ever in her prime! Ever. I am in my prime. Would you test your strength out on me?

There is no way anyone would dare test their strength out on me because you all know there is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible. ”
― James Frey, My Friend Leonard

“He told me that from now on, everything I did and everything he did was of the utmost importance: any word spoken, the slightest gesture, would take on a meaning, and everything that happened between us would change us continually. 'For that reason,'he said,'I wish I were able to suspend time at this moment and keep things exactly at this point, because I feel this instant is a true beginning. 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. That's why I wish I could hold it back at the start. We should make a minimum of gestures, pronounce a minimum of words, even see each other as seldom as possible, if that would prolong things. We don't know how much of everything we have ahead of us so we have to take the greatest precautions not to destroy the beauty of what we have. Everything exists in limited quantity-especially happiness. If a love is to come into being, it is all written down somewhere, and also its duration and content. If you could arrive at the complete intensity the first day, it would be ended the first day. And so if it's something you want so much that you'd like to have it prolonged in time, you must be extremely careful not to make the slightest excessive demand that might prevent it from developing to the greatest extent over the longest period...If the wings of the butterfly are to keep their sheen, you mustn't touch them. We mustn't abuse something which is to bring light into both our lives. Everything else in my life only weighs me down and shuts out the light. This thing wih you seems like a window that is opening up. I want it to remain open...”
― Francoise Gilot, Life With Picasso

“One day when I went to see him (Picasso), we were looking at the dust dancing in a ray of sunlight that slanted in through one of the high windows. He said to me, 'Nobody has any real importance to me. As far as I'm concerned, other people are like those little grains of dust floating in the sunlight. It takes only a push of the broom and out they go.'I told him I had often noticed in his dealings with others that he considered the rest of the world only little grains of dust. But I said, as it happened, I was a little grain of dust gifted with autonomous movement and who didn't therefore need a broom. I could go out by myself.”
― Francoise Gilot, Life With Picasso

“Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.”
― Candice Bergen

“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it.”
― Francoise Gilot, Life With Picasso

“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. The future will choose the pages it prefers. It's not up to me to make the choice. I have the impression that the time is speading on past me more and more rapidly. I'm like a river that rolls on, dragging with it the trees that grow too close to its banks or dead calves one might have thrown into it or any kind of microbes that develop in it. I carry all that along with me and go on. It's the movement of painting that interests me, the dramatic movement from one effort to the next, even if those efforts are perhaps not pushed to their ultimate end. In some of my paintings I can say with certainty that the effort has been brought to its full weight and its conclusion, because there I have been able to stop the flow of time around me. I have less and less time, and yet I have more and more to say, and what I have to say is,increasingly, something about what goes on in the movement of my thought. I've reached the moment, you see, when the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.”
― Francoise Gilot, Life With Picasso

“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.”
― Francoise Gilot, Life With Picasso

“What interests me is to set up what you might call the rapport de grand écart - the most unexpected relationship possible between the things I want to speak about, because there is a certain difficulty in establishing relationships in just that way, and in that difficulty there is an interest, and in that interest there is a certain tension and for me that tension is a lot more important than the stable equilibrium of harmony, which doesn't interest me at all. Reality must be torn apart in every sense of the word. What people forget is that everything is unique. Nature never produces the same thing twice. Hence my stress on seeking the rapport de grand écart: a small head on a large body; a large head on a small body. I want to draw the mind in the direction it's not used to and wake it up. I want to help the viewer discover something he wouldn't have discovered without me. That's why I stress the dissimilarity, for example, between the left eye and the right eye. A painter shouldn't make them so similar. They're just not that way. So my purpose is to set things in movement, to provoke this movement by contradictory tensions, opposing forces, and in that tension or opposition, to find the moment which seems the most interesting to me.”
― Francoise Gilot, Life With Picasso

“Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso,
From Dalí and El Greco,
From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.'
He was born before Cervantes.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you.”
― Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

“And I got the like, crazy mental illness, so like, maybe someday they'll be like, 'Yeah, he was like Rembrandt, or, uh, Picasso, only he didn't, he didn't cut his ear off, but he ate his own shit. That's so funny, dude. Oh, that's so funny. I'm glad I'm secure in my own idiocy.”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen

“Life is not a one and done sort of deal. You've got to work for what you want.
Picasso created nearly 100 masterpieces in his lifetime. But what most people don't know is that he created a total of more then 50,000 works of art. .. Thats two pieces of art a day. Success is a numbers game. You are not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait. The more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed.”
― Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage

“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.”
― Jean-Michel Rene Souche

“আমি যদি ওকে বলতুম ও কি পছন্দ করত । ও কি পছন্দ করত যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম।
ও কি পছন্দ করত যদি নেপোলিয়ান হতেন নেপোলিয়ান হতেন হতেন ও পচন্দ করত।
যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি ওকে বলতুম যদি বলতুম যদি নেপোলিয়ান । ও কি পছন্দ করত যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম যদি বলতুম যদি নেপোলিয়ান । ও কি পছন্দ করত যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম । যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি ওকে বলতুম । যদি ওকে বলতুম ও কি পছন্দ করত ও কি পচন্দ করত যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম ।
এখন ।
এখন নয় ।
আর এখন ।
এখন ।
ঠিক যেমন যেমন রাজারা ।
পুরোটা অনুভব করতে পারে ।
রাজাদের মতন হুবহু ।
তাই তোমাকে খোঁজা এরজন্য পুরোটা এর জন্য।
অবিকল কিংবা রাজাদের মতন ।
আবদ্ধ বন্ধ আর খোলা যেমন রানিরা । আবদ্ধ বন্ধ আর আবদ্ধ আর তাই আবদ্ধ বন্ধ আর আবদ্ধ আর তাই আর তাই আবদ্ধ আর তাই আবদ্ধ বন্ধ আর তাই আবদ্ধ বন্ধ আর আবদ্ধ আর
তাই । আর তাই আবদ্ধ বন্ধ আর তাই আর সেই সঙ্গে । আর সেইসঙ্গে আর তাই আর তাই আর সেই সঙ্গে ।
হুবহু মিল হুবহু মিলের সঙ্গে হুবহু মিল হুবহু মিলের মতন ঠিক হুবহু মিলের মতন, হুবহু ঠিক তেমনিই মিল, হুবহু মিলে যায়, হুবহু তেমনই দেখতে হুবহুর হুবহু । কারন এটা তাইই। কেননা ।
এখন সক্রিয়ভাবে একে বারবার করো, সক্রিয়ভাবে সবকিছু বারবার করো, সক্রিয়ভাবে বারবার করো ।
বলেছি আর শুনেছি, সক্রিয়ভাবে বারবার ।
আমি বিচারকের বিচার করি ।
যেন তার মতন দেখতে ।
কে প্রথমে আসে । প্রথম নেপোলিয়ান ।
কে আরও আসে আসে আরও, কে ওখানে যায়, যেমন যেমন যায় তেমন ভাগাভাগি করে, কে সবকিছু ভাগাভাগি করে, সবই হয় সবই হয় এখনও এখনও ।”
― Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein: Selections

“So how do you go about teaching them something new? By mixing what they know with what they don’t know. Then, when they see vaguely in their fog something they recognize, they think, ‘Ah, I know that.’ And then it’s just one more step to, ‘Ah, I know the whole thing.’ And their mind thrusts forward into the unknown and they begin to recognize what they didn’t know before and they increase their powers of understanding.”
― Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

“I have always tried for quality in everything I do. I don't have a problem with that; I have a problem with mediocrity.

It is only because I have the courage to stand by my ideas, my projects, and my aspirations that I am frequently branded as an egoist. I've yet to meet a person who isn't an egoist. Picasso was a magnificent egoist, and he painted his pictures because that's what he had to do. But I believe that, as egoistic as he was, Picasso created something for the human race that can never be repeated. The world would be a happier place if only there were more people capable of expressing their vision, ideas, and needs.”
― Reinhold Messner

“One must not forget that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile. The automobile is the end of progress on the earth, it goes quicker but essentially the landscapes seen from an automobile are the same as the landscapes seen from a carriage, a train, a waggon or in walking. But the earth seen from an airplane is something else. So the twentieth century is not the same as the nineteenth century and it is very interesting knowing that Picasso has never seen the earth from an airplane, that being of the twentieth century he inevitably knew that the earth is not the same as in the nineteenth century, he knew it, he made it, inevitably he made it different and what he made is a thing that now all the world can see.”
― Gertrude Stein, Picasso

“Paint the canvas of your dreams with the blood of your sweat. You are the Picasso of your own life.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, "Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway." So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.”
― Marina Abramović

“Picasso’s eclecticism signifies the deliberate destruction of the unity of the personality; his imitations are protests against the cult of originality; his deformation of reality, which is always clothing itself in new forms, in order the more forcibly to demonstrate their arbitrariness, is intended, above all, to confirm the thesis that ‘nature and art are two entirely dissimilar phenomena’. Picasso turns himself into a conjurer, a juggler, a parodist, out of opposition to the romantic with his ‘inner voice’, his ‘take it or leave it’, his self-esteem and self-worship. And he disavows not only romanticism, but even the Renaissance, which, with its concept of genius and its idea of the unity of work and style, anticipates romanticism to some extent. He represents a complete break with individualism and subjectivism, the absolute denial of art as the expression of an unmistakable personality. His works are notes and commentaries on reality; they make no claim to be regarded as a picture of a world and a totality, as a synthesis and epitome of existence. Picasso compromises the artistic means of expression by his indiscriminate use of the different artistic styles just as thoroughly and wilfully as do the surrealists by their renunciation of traditional forms.”
― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age

“And I got the like, crazy mental illness, so like, maybe someday they'll be like, 'Yeah, he was like Rembrandt, or, uh, Picasso, only he didn't, he didn't cut his ear off, but he ate his own shit'. That's so funny, dude. Oh, that's so funny. I'm glad I'm secure in my own idiocy.”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen

“Look at the stars,
look at the moon streaked in the water,
look at the Picasso face in the sky
that breathes the words of Lorca on the cheeks
of the crossed ones who long to touch,
too confused to wander.”
― Ruth Boukhari, Forlorn

“But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself.
-- Pablo Picasso”
― André Malraux, Picasso's Mask

“Art was the only woman Picasso loved.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to that of any composer or poet for whom the meaning of his life was creation. One could only wonder what Picasso would have done to the world if he had been born a physicist. Terrifying thought . . .”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp