Quotes by Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
– Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real.
– Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
– Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
– Pablo Picasso
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
– Pablo Picasso
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
– 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
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
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.
– Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
– Pablo Picasso
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.
– Pablo Picasso
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
We don’t grow older we grow riper.
– Pablo Picasso
Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.
– Pablo Picasso
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
– 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
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
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
– Pablo Picasso
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
– Pablo Picasso
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
– Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
– 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
A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
– Pablo Picasso