Quotes By Pablo Picasso

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

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

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.

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.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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

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 took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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.

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.

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