Pablo Picasso
painter, sculptor, printmaker, choreographer, ceramicist, poster artist, illustrator, photographer, costume designer, designer, jewelry designer, graphic artist, architectural draftsperson, muralist, assemblage artist, collagist, scenographer, draftsperson, screenwriter, visual artist, poet, pastellist, etcher, lithographer, watercolorist, theatre designer, drypoint engraver, stage painter, lino cutter
Read on Wikipedia1881 – 1973
All Quotes by Pablo Picasso
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
“Youth has no age.”
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”
“Youth has no age.”
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
“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.”
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
“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.”
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“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.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”
“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.”
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
“If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.”
“To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.”
“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.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”
“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.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
“It takes a long time to become young.”
“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.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“We don't grow older, we grow riper.”
“The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
“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.”
“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.”
“I do not seek. I find.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
“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.”
“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
“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.”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“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.”
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.”
“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
“The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.”
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
“The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“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.”
“You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!”
“Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.”
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
“The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.”
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”
“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”
“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
“It takes a long time to become young.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“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.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“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.”
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
“Youth has no age.”
“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.”
“I do not seek. I find.”
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“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.”
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”