Pablo Picasso Pain Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

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.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

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.

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

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

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.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

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.

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.

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.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

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.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to their talent and intelligence can change a yellow blot into the sun.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

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. --Pablo Picasso 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.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; 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.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child

I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.