Quotes By Pablo Picasso

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

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

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.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.