Zitat des Tages von Pablo Picasso:
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Youth has no age.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.