Pablo Picasso Quotes

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

Action is the foundation of all success.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

I do not seek. I find.

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

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

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

Why assume that to look is to see?

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

In the end there is only Matisse.

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

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

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

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

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

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

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

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

Computers are stupid.