#paint

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

— Pablo Picasso

#i #i see #i think #objects #paint

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#face #inside #paint

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. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#blind #feels #himself #man #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. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

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

— Pablo Picasso

#face #human #human face #mirror #painter

One must act in painting as in life, directly. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#directly #life #must #painting

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

— Pablo Picasso

#beautiful #horror #i #must #painting

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

— Pablo Picasso

#does #just #opposite #painting #particular

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

— Pablo Picasso

#comment #make #painter #painting #sculpture

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

#painting #silent #speaks