Pablo Picasso Quotes
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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse ... but surely you will see the wildness!
— Pablo Picasso
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
— Pablo Picasso
In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.
— Norman Mailer
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
— Pablo Picasso
I do not seek. I find.
— Pablo Picasso
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
— Pablo Picasso
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
— Pablo Picasso
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
— Pablo Picasso
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
— Pablo Picasso
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
— Pablo Picasso
Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
— Pablo Picasso
All Children are Artists
— Pablo Picasso
For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
— Pablo Picasso
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
— Pablo Picasso
My hand tells me what I'm thinking.
— Pablo Picasso
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age ...
— Pablo Picasso
We have learned nothing.
— Pablo Picasso
You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.
— Frank Stella
I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
— Pablo Picasso
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
— Pablo Picasso
If there is something to steal, I steal it.
— Pablo Picasso
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
— Pablo Picasso
Lord, protect me from what I want!
— Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.
— Pablo Picasso
Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.
— Pablo Picasso
Action is the foundation of all success.
— Pablo Picasso
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
— Pablo Picasso
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
— Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
— Pablo Picasso
How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
— Pablo Picasso
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
— Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
— Pablo Picasso
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
— Pablo Picasso
I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
— Pablo Picasso
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." - Pablo Picasso
— David Sherwin
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
— Pablo Picasso
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects
— Pablo Picasso
A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
— Pablo Picasso
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
— Pablo Picasso
Everything we can dream can be real.
— Pablo Picasso
There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
— Pablo Picasso
If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
— Pablo Picasso
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
— Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
— Pablo Picasso
We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust - entropy always wins.
— Pablo Picasso
The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
— Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Lauren
— Viola Shipman
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
— Pablo Picasso
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
— Pablo Picasso
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
— Pablo Picasso
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
— Pablo Picasso
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
— Pablo Picasso
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
— Pablo Picasso
In art, practice always comes before theory.
— Pablo Picasso
You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.
— Pablo Picasso
If you can imagine it ... it is real
— Pablo Picasso
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
— Pablo Picasso
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica). — Pablo Picasso
(about Guernica). — Pablo Picasso
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
— Pablo Picasso
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
— Pablo Picasso
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
— Pablo Picasso
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
— Pablo Picasso
To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
— Pablo Picasso
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.
— Pablo Picasso
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
— Pablo Picasso
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
— Pablo Picasso
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
— Pablo Picasso
I'm not a developer; I am.
— Pablo Picasso
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
— Pablo Picasso
I do not evolve, I AM.
— Pablo Picasso
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.
— Pablo Picasso
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
— Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
— Pablo Picasso
If you don't know what color to take, take black ...
— Pablo Picasso
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.
— Pablo Picasso
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
— Pablo Picasso
I imitate everyone except myself.
— Pablo Picasso
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
— Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real.
— Picasso Pablo
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
— Pablo Picasso