Famous Pablo Picasso Quotations

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"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
by Pablo Picasso
"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
by Pablo Picasso
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
by Pablo Picasso
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."
by Pablo Picasso
"Give me a museum, and I'll fill it."
by Pablo Picasso
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
by Pablo Picasso
"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
by Pablo Picasso
"Drink to me."
by 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."
by Pablo Picasso
"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."
by Pablo Picasso
"Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."
by Pablo Picasso
"Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."
by Pablo Picasso
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up"
by Pablo Picasso
"Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth."
by Pablo Picasso
"Art is a lie that tells the truth."
by Pablo Picasso
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
by Pablo Picasso
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
by Pablo Picasso
"As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done"
by Pablo Picasso
"Art washes away the dust of everyday life."
by Pablo Picasso
"Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living."
by Pablo Picasso
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
by Pablo Picasso
"Art is the lie that tells the truth"
by Pablo Picasso
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
by Pablo Picasso
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal"
by Pablo Picasso
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
by Pablo Picasso
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction"
by Pablo Picasso
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
by Pablo Picasso
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
by Pablo Picasso
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up"
by Pablo Picasso
"Every positive value has its price in negative terms. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima"
by Pablo Picasso
"Everything you can imagine is real."
by Pablo Picasso
"Everything you can imagine is real"
by Pablo Picasso
"Genius is personality with two measures of talent"
by 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"
by Pablo Picasso
"God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas."
by Pablo Picasso
"Good taste is the enemy of creativity"
by Pablo Picasso
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
by Pablo Picasso
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
by Pablo Picasso
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it"
by Pablo Picasso
"I don't work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art"
by Pablo Picasso
"I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them."
by Pablo Picasso
"I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn"
by Pablo Picasso
"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
by Pablo Picasso
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working"
by Pablo Picasso
"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction"
by Pablo Picasso
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
by Pablo Picasso
"Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body."
by Mildred and Victor Goertzel
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
by Pablo Picasso
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"
by Pablo Picasso
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
by 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."
by Pablo Picasso
"The artist is a recepticle for the 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."
by Pablo Picasso
"The artist is a receptacle for the 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."
by 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..."
by 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"
by Pablo Picasso
"The path to youth takes a whole life"
by 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."
by 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"
by Pablo Picasso
"There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too"
by Pablo Picasso
"We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
by Pablo Picasso
"We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities."
by Pablo Picasso
"We don't grow older, we grow riper"
by Pablo Picasso
"We have a lot of reasons but only one real one."
by 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"
by Pablo Picasso
"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 end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
by Pablo Picasso
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
by Pablo Picasso
"Youth has no age."
by Pablo Picasso
"Youth has no age"
by Pablo Picasso
"Colours, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
by Pablo Picasso
"Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up."
by Pablo Picasso
"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste."
by Pablo Picasso
"I do not seek, I find."
by 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."
by 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."
by Pablo Picasso
"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
by Pablo Picasso
"It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace."
by Pablo Picasso
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things."
by Pablo Picasso
"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."
by 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."
by 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."
by 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."
by Pablo Picasso
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
by Pablo Picasso
"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
by Pablo Picasso
"Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
by Pablo Picasso
"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
by Pablo Picasso
"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"
by 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."
by Pablo Picasso
"Through art we express our conception of what nature is not."
by Pablo Picasso
"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 mus..."
by Pablo Picasso


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