Pablo Picasso Quotes (129 Quotes)

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

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.

It is my misfortune and probably my delight to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondesto have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit ... I put all the things I like into mypictures. The things so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

When you come right down to it, all you have is your self. Your self is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing.

My mother said to me, If you become a soldier you'll be a general if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

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.

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

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

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.

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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

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

Drink to me.

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

I do not search I find.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late

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

Now there is fame Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

It takes a long time to become young.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

Youth has no age.

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds

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.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

I should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

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

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

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