Pablo Picasso Quotes

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

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

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

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.

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

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

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.

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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

It takes a long time to become young.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I do not seek. I find.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Youth has no age.

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

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

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

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.

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

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

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

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

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

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

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

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

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