Pablo Picasso Quotes About Painting

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

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

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.[La pintura es un oficio de ciegos. El pintor no pinta lo que ve, sino lo que siente, lo que comenta consigo mismo acerca de lo que ha visto.]

Only when painting isn’t painting can there be an affront to modesty.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite – that particular peach is but a detail.

In the end, there is only love. However it may be. And they ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

In painting as in life, you must act directly.