Quotes By Pablo Picasso

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.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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 have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

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

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.

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

I do not seek. I find.

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

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

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 don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

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.

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

It takes a long time to become young.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.