Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 2

Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright

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

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

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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

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A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
– Pablo Picasso

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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

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

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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
– Pablo Picasso

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

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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

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

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I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
– Pablo Picasso

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

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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

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

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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

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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
– Pablo Picasso

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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
– Pablo Picasso

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

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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

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Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.
– Pablo Picasso

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