Quotes By Pablo Picasso

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.

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.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

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

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

It takes a long time to become young.

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.