Pablo Picasso Quotes

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

A picture is a poem without words.

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Painting is silent poetry.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.