Quotes By Pablo Picasso

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.

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

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

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.

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

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?

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.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

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.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.