Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
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 Quote
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Everything you can imagine is real.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
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.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
I do not seek. I find.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
- Pablo Picasso Quote
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
- Pablo Picasso Quote
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
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.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
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 Quote
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite; that that particular peach is but a detail.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
- Pablo Picasso Quote
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
- Pablo Picasso Quote
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 Quote
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
Youth has no age.
- Pablo Picasso Quote
