Picasso Quotes
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Picasso Quotes & Sayings
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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
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.
— Jean Cocteau
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
— Jerry Saltz
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
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
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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
The people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
— Aretha Franklin
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
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
— David Hockney
Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.
— Pablo Picasso
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
— Andre Malraux
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
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
— Pablo Picasso
EVERYTHING IS A MIRACLE. IT IS A MIRACLE THAT ONE DOES NOT MELT IN ONE'S BATH. - PICASSO
— Laini Taylor
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
— Pablo Picasso
I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.
— Margaret Keane
If you don't know what color to take, take black ...
— Pablo Picasso
I'm not a developer; I am.
— 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
Pablo Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Lauren
— Viola Shipman
I do not evolve, I AM.
— Pablo Picasso
The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.
— Billy Cannon
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.
— Pablo Picasso
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
— Tracey Emin
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
— Pablo Picasso
Everything we can dream can be real.
— Pablo Picasso
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
— 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
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
— Pablo Picasso
A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
— Pablo Picasso
Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
— Paloma Picasso
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
— Pablo Picasso
I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
— Pablo Picasso
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
— Sean Connery
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects
— Pablo Picasso
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
— 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
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
— Pablo Picasso
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
— Larry Ellison
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
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
— Rita Rudner
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
— Pablo Picasso
You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.
— 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
Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested.
— E.L. Konigsburg
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
Everything you can imagine is real.
— Picasso Pablo
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
You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.
— James Frey
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
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
— Jill Scott
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams.
— Robert Breault
I'm a Picasso, not a Vermeer
— David Arnold
It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
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
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form ... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
— Pablo Picasso
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
— Pablo Picasso
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
— 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
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
— Paloma Picasso