Art Quotes and Sayings

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
– Pablo Picasso

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

You don’t make art, you find it.
– Pablo Picasso

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.
– Pablo Picasso

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

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
– Pablo Picasso

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
– Pablo Picasso

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

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

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.
– Pablo Picasso

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
– Pablo Picasso

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

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
– Pablo Picasso

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
– Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
– Pablo Picasso