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.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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.

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

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.

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