My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo PicassoRead
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 sun
Interpretation
Art can change perceptions and elevate simple elements into profound concepts.
This quote by Pablo Picasso highlights the transformative power of art and creativity. While some artists may simply replicate what they see, others possess the ability to elevate ordinary objects or ideas into something much greater and more meaningful through their artistic expression and intelligence, thus reshaping our understanding of the world around us.
In practice
In a speech about creativity in education, one might mention this quote to inspire students.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.
Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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