Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Quote by Pablo Picasso

Topics: Art Quotes

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

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

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

I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money.

I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

I do not seek. I find.

I do not seek. I find.

Drink to me.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful?...

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful?...

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when...

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when...

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes...

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes...

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

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

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

Taste is the enemy of creativeness

Taste is the enemy of creativeness

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

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

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

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art...

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art...

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he...

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he...