I have gathered some of these quotes of Picasso from surfing the net which you may find interesting and relevant to the vision we have for CNP.
His observations about kids' capabilities are so true and painful. It hurts to see those fine imaginations of our own kids making way for remembering math tables
and byhearting poems of 'great poets' and vomiting them later in front of the teacher.
His quote on self copy is a revelation for me which I am sure will influence my own image making in years to come.
Anyway, here it goes. Hope you will find these quotes useful.
Pablo Picasso's quotes
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Everything you can imagine is real.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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.
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.