Pablo Picasso Quotes

It takes a very long time to become young.

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

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

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

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

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

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

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

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.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

I do not evolve, I am.

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

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

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.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Youth has no age.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

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

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

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

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

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

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.

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

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

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

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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.

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.

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.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

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

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

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

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.

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

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

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

Drink to me.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.