Nature & Animals Quote by Pablo Picasso

Picasso knocks God off the altar and drops Him into the studio, sleeves rolled up, making drafts. The provocation isn’t simple blasphemy; it’s an artist’s way of reclaiming authorship. By calling God “only another artist,” Picasso flattens the hierarchy between divine creation and human making. Creation becomes less a sacred act and more a messy, iterative practice: you try a giraffe, you try an elephant, you land on a cat. The joke lands because it’s delivered with workshop casualness, as if the cosmos were a sketchbook full of experiments.

The barbed line is “He has no real style.” Style, in Picasso’s world, is the fingerprint of intention: a coherent set of choices that reveal a mind at work. Nature, by contrast, is lavishly plural. Its “lack” of style is really its refusal to be reducible to a single signature. Picasso is teasing the very idea that the world must look like it was designed with one consistent aesthetic program. He’s also taking a sly swipe at academic expectations of unity and harmony - the demand that great work should look like it obeys one governing taste.

Context matters: Picasso lived through the wreckage of old certainties, from collapsing monarchies to mechanized war, and he spent his career breaking “style” into a series of strategic betrayals. The subtext is self-portraiture: if God keeps “trying other things,” then Picasso’s own reinventions aren’t fickleness; they’re fidelity to creation itself.