Quotes By 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.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

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

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.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

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

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

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

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

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.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

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

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.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Youth has no age.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.