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Quotes by Pablo Picasso


Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
– Pablo Picasso

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
– Pablo Picasso
Action is the foundational key to all success.
– Pablo Picasso
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
– Pablo Picasso
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
– Pablo Picasso
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
– Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
– Pablo Picasso
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
– Pablo Picasso
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
– Pablo Picasso
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
– Pablo Picasso
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
– Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
– Pablo Picasso
I do not seek. I find.
– Pablo Picasso
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
– Pablo Picasso
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
– Pablo Picasso
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
– Pablo Picasso
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
– Pablo Picasso
It takes a long time to become young.
– Pablo Picasso
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
– Pablo Picasso
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
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
– Pablo Picasso
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
– Pablo Picasso
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
– Pablo Picasso
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
– Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
– Pablo Picasso
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
– Pablo Picasso
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
– Pablo Picasso
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
– Pablo Picasso
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
– Pablo Picasso
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
– Pablo Picasso
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
– Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
– Pablo Picasso
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
– Pablo Picasso
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
– Pablo Picasso
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
– Pablo Picasso
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.
– Pablo Picasso
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
– Pablo Picasso
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.
– Pablo Picasso
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
– Pablo Picasso
Youth has no age.
– Pablo Picasso
Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
– Pablo Picasso
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.
– Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
– Pablo Picasso
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
– Pablo Picasso
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.
– Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
– Pablo Picasso
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
– Pablo Picasso
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
– Pablo Picasso
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
– Pablo Picasso
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
– Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
– Pablo Picasso
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
– Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
– Pablo Picasso
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
– Pablo Picasso
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
– Pablo Picasso
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
– Pablo Picasso
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
– Pablo Picasso
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
– Pablo Picasso
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
– Pablo Picasso
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
– Pablo Picasso
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
– Pablo Picasso