Pablo Picasso Quotes

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

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

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.