Pablo Picasso: Citáty v angličtine (page 4)

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

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”

“It took me a lifetime.”

“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it… myself included.”

“The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.”

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

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”

“Sex and art are the same thing.”

“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived… The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.”

“I do not believe I have used radically different elements in the different manners I have used in my paintings. If the subjects I have wanted to express have suggested different ways of expression, I have never hesitated to adopt them. I have never made trials nor experiments. Whenever I had something to say I have said it in the manner in which I have felt it ought to be said. Different motives inevitably require different methods of expression.”

“When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.”

“I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.”

“I also often hear the word 'evolution'. Repeatedly I am asked to explain how my painting evolved. To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was. Art does not evolve by itself, the ideas of people change and with them their mode of expression.”

“For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.”