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Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker,
ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for
co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the
co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped
develop and explore.
PABLO PICASSO MOST FAMOUS QUOTE.
Here is A selection of some of Pablo Picasso most famous quotes. Pablo
Picasso Quotes About Life, Love, Art, and The meaning of Life.
Pablo Picasso Famous Quotes and Sayings
Everything you can imagine is real.― Pablo Picasso
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.― Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.― Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.― Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.― Pablo Picasso
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.― Pablo Picasso
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.― 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
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.― Pablo Picasso
It takes a very long time to become young.― Pablo Picasso
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.― Pablo Picasso
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.― Pablo Picasso
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.― Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.― Pablo Picasso
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.― Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.― Pablo Picasso
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.― Pablo Picasso
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.― Pablo Picasso
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?― Pablo Picasso
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!― Pablo Picasso
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.― Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.― 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 only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.― Pablo Picasso
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.― Pablo Picasso
I do not seek. I find.― Pablo Picasso
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.― Pablo Picasso
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing― Pablo Picasso
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.― Pablo Picasso
Youth has no age.― Pablo Picasso
If I don't have red, I use blue.― 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
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...― 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
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.― Pablo Picasso
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.― Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.― Pablo Picasso
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.― Pablo Picasso
Action is the foundational key to all success.― Pablo Picasso
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
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.― Pablo Picasso
All art is erotic.― Pablo Picasso
Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.― Pablo Picasso
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.― Pablo Picasso
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.― 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
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.― Pablo Picasso
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.― 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
Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.― Pablo Picasso
We don't grow older we grow riper.― Pablo Picasso
You don't make art, you find it.― Pablo Picasso
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.― Pablo Picasso
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.― Pablo Picasso
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.― Pablo Picasso
Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.― Pablo Picasso
There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.― Pablo Picasso
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.― Pablo Picasso
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.― Pablo Picasso
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.― Pablo Picasso
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.― Pablo Picasso
It took me a lifetime.― Pablo Picasso
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.― Pablo Picasso
The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.― Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?― Pablo Picasso
Sex and art are the same thing.― Pablo Picasso
Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.― Pablo Picasso
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.― Pablo Picasso
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.― Pablo Picasso
We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.― Pablo Picasso
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.― Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that reveals the truth.― Pablo Picasso
The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.― Pablo Picasso
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.― Pablo Picasso
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.― Pablo Picasso
My hand tells me what I'm thinking.― Pablo Picasso
When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.― Pablo Picasso
You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.― 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
It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.― Pablo Picasso
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.― Pablo Picasso
We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.― Pablo Picasso
Imagination is real.― Pablo Picasso
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.― Pablo Picasso
The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.― Pablo Picasso
Art is theft.― Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.― Pablo Picasso
Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.― Pablo Picasso
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.― Pablo Picasso
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.― Pablo Picasso
It is a miracle that one does not dissolve into one's bath like a lump of sugar.― Pablo Picasso
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.― Pablo Picasso
People who read are people who dream.― Pablo Picasso
Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.― Pablo Picasso
You have to wake people up! To revolutionize their way of identifying things...you've got to create images they won't accept.― Pablo Picasso
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.― Pablo Picasso
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.― Pablo Picasso
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?― Pablo Picasso