Pablo Picasso Quotes

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as 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 sun

It takes a very long time to become young.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

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

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

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

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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.

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

I do not seek. I find.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Youth has no age.

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

If I don't have red, I use blue.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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.

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.

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

We don't grow older we grow riper.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

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

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

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

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

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

It took me a lifetime.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

Sex and art are the same thing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

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

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard

I'm not a developer; I am.

Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

To find is the thing.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

Siempre estoy haciendo cosas que no puedo hacer, así es como logro hacerlas.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

It takes a long time to grow young.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

We’re constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?

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

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.