About life :
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Paradise is to love many things with a passion.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“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.”
“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
“What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
“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.”
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
About Art :
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.”
“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.”
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.”
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas where painting is concerned, they want to understand. 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.”
“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.”
“The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.”
“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.”
“A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.”
“A young artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.”
“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good”
“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.”
“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 transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial.”
“The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.”
“What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.”
“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.”
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.”
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
- Pablo Picasso
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