Pablo Picasso Quotes on Drawing & Painting (19 Quotes)

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is 'touched by God.'

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Picassos Wife In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing.

It is my misfortune and probably my delight to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondesto have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit ... I put all the things I like into mypictures. The things so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

My mother said to me, If you become a soldier you'll be a general if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.