Pablo Picasso Quotes

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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

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

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

It took me a lifetime.

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

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

It takes a long time to become young.

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

I do not seek. I find.

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.

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

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

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.

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

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.

To find is the thing.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

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

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

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

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

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.