Words matter. These are the best Pablo Picasso Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Youth has no age.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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 more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite – that particular peach is but a detail.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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.
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.
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
We don’t grow older, we grow riper.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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.
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.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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.
