Pablo Picasso Quotes (129 Quotes)

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

It takes one a long time to become young.

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

-Picassos Wife If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

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.

Everything you can imagine is real.

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.

I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Ah, good taste What a dreadful thing Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand my explanation, but you will not understand the picture.

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.