Pablo Picasso Quotes

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There's no set rule.

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.