Pablo Picasso Quotes

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get toget...

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it...

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, ...

To find is the thing.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you becom...

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of...

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and u...

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

I do not seek. I find.

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells h...

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the ea...

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces ...

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People...

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people wh...

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in ...

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some con...

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Everything you can imagine is real.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is ...

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive bey...

Youth has no age.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth ...

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love th...

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that ...

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are ri...

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping st...

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every...

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can hav...

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will ...

It took me a lifetime.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can...

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy...

Action is the foundational key to all success.

My mother said to me "If you become a soldier you'll be a general if you become a monk you'll end...

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

It takes a long time to become young.

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real styl...

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real...

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.