Quotes By Pablo Picasso

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.

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

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

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.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

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

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

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

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

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

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

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

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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?

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

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

I do not seek. I find.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?