Creativity Quote by Pablo Picasso

A dare disguised as a lament: stop thinking and start seeing. Picasso’s line isn’t anti-intellectual so much as anti-autopilot. The “brain” here stands for everything that arrives before the image does - training, labels, taste, etiquette, the comforting story we tell ourselves about what art is “supposed” to be. “Use only our eyes” is a provocation aimed at that reflex. It imagines an impossible purity of perception, the kind a child has before the world gets captioned.

The intent fits Picasso’s larger project: dismantling the inherited rules of representation. Cubism wasn’t just a style; it was a refusal of a single, rational viewpoint as the default truth. To “pull out our brain” is to suspend the tidy logic that wants one perspective, one correct anatomy, one stable meaning. When you look at a face split into angles or a guitar that becomes geometry, the brain scrambles to reassemble the familiar. Picasso is asking you to resist that urge long enough to register what’s actually there: rhythm, weight, collision, sensation.

The subtext is also a jab at bourgeois spectatorship - the museum-goer who wants to “get it” quickly, to translate a painting into a neat takeaway. Picasso insists on a slower, stranger literacy: perception as an event, not a verdict. In a century of photography, advertising, and mass reproduction - images everywhere, attention nowhere - the quote reads like a manifesto for looking as labor, and for art as a way of re-sensitizing the eye against the brain’s lazy shortcuts.