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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso first learned how to be an artist from his father and most often from then on, by other art teachers at the art schools his father taught in. He dropped out of college-level art school after a year and went to Paris, the art capitol of Europe to make his living as an artist. He was extremely poor for the first few years in Paris, but over time his career flourished. At a recent exhibition of his art and the art of other famous modern artists at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, it showed how Picasso led the way for most every innovation in sculpture and painting in the 20th century.

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”

- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

 

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

 

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

 

“If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”

- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

 

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The Guinness Book of World Records names Picasso as the most prolific painter who ever lived. Here are two of his inspiring quotes:

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

- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

 

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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Cézanne, whose work bridged impressionism with cubism, preferred to live and paint in beautiful Provence, far to the south of Paris. He created portraits, still lifes, landscapes and compositions featuring bathers. I found this quotation in a Zen Buddhist book, for he sumarizes the main worldview of meditators… experiencing each moment anew, spontaniously arising and fleeting. The artist captures and records that rich, pristine reality, and leaves concepts, conventions and historical renderings out.

“Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate…give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.”

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Creativity described by the founder of the ‘Innovation Network’ and author of ‘Mindmapping, Your Personal Guide to Exploring Creativity and Problem-Solving’…

“One purpose of life is to discover who we are. Finding out who we are, though, is not as easy as it would seem. We are so much a part of the group that we have to listen very closely to discover our inner self… what our uniqueness is. It is when we finally hear the truth of ourselves that we discover our own creativity. This process of self-discovery is as important as the possible products of that discovery.”

Photographer, writer and social commentator Dorothy Norman invites us to open to our own authenticity, through art and the inner truth revealed in our dreams.

“Is it not the artist who – like our dreams – dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?”

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Giorgio Vasari, the first Italian art historian, tells the story of the Italian King’s visit to Leonardo Da Vinci, who was on his deathbed. Da Vinci sat up as best he could and said:

“...that he had offended God and man in that he had not labored in art as he ought to have done.”

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From the introductory essay to A Brief History of Painting

“You’ll realize that being interested in art and being able to think about it – and maybe even communicate your thoughts, or put your thoughts into action if you want to be a painter yourself – is its own reward. You don’t get into it for reasons of snobbery or wanting to gain the power to intimidate people with a lot of weird terms or jargon you’ve just learned. Instead the attraction is something more inward. There is an inner yearning that painting answers.”

- Matthew Collings

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From the introduction to Your Life As Art, the most pragmatic guide to manifesting your personal vision of the life that you want that I have ever read.

“You can conceive of the life you want to bring into being as an artist conceives of a painting, take strategic actions to build such a life as the artist takes all the necessary actions to create the painting, and inhabit the life you want to create as the artist may hang the painting on a wall to experience it.”

- Robert Fritz (1943-   )

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Art Quote by the French Writer, Albert Camus

"There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it."

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

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