Pablo Picasso in his artist quotes on painting, Cubism & life - free resource, French art history

Pablo Picasso in quotes - the Spain-born artist informs us on his painting art, the start of early Cubism together with Braque & his artistic life in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

Picasso’s artist quotes tell us a lot about the early start of French Cubism - by Braque and himself in Paris circa 1908-10; both artists were strongly inspired by Cezanne’s ideas on painting. Picasso reflects in his quotes also on the essence of Cubist art, and rejected strongly the idea of ‘Abstract art’! He expresses his later admiration for French contemporary artists like Henri Matisse and also Marc Chagall, because of their admirable color use and strong visual imagination.

Picasso describes his characteristic way of creating art as ‘finding’ - he rejects ‘looking for’. He values a picture, made by him as a sum of destruction activities - without losing anything in the long run of creation.
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Some selected artist quotes of Pablo Picasso - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Almost every evening (in their early Cubist-years, in Paris, France), either I went to (Georges) Braque’s studio or Braque came to mine… …We criticized each other’s paintings. A canvas wasn’t finished unless both of us felt it was.’ - quote of Picasso, Dec. 1908; as cited in: ‘Futurism’, ed. Didier Ottinger; 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311

• ’In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing. Nobody is interested in following a man who… …spends his life looking for the purse that fortune should put in his path’. - Picasso’s quote, from his interview with Marius de Zayas: in: ‘The Arts’, vol. 3, New York, May 1923. pp. 315-329

• ’Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them?.. .Let them understand above all that the artist… …too, is a minute element of the world.’ - quote from interviews with Christian Zervos, in 1934-35
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  selection of free art-resources on the artist Pablo Picasso:

  • biographical notes on Picasso, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Picasso, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
  • images of the painting art of Picasso, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/picasso
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]