Pablo Picasso Quotes

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Art is a continuum.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.