Pablo Picasso famous quotes

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Music

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

#Inspirational #Success #Education

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Life #Death

Action is the foundational key to all success.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Success #Encouraging

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Paint

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Fashion #Art #Writing

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

#Inspirational #Leadership #Music

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Change #Done

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Truth #Lying

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Artist #Painting

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Mean #Today #Riches

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

#Art #Miracle #Sugar

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Color #Design

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Simplicity #Unnecessary

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Uplifting #Spiritual #Peace

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Life #Art #Diaries

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Creativity #Enemy #Taste

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Being Alone #Solitude #Serious

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Beauty

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Artist

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
-- Pablo Picasso

#War #Done #Painting

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
-- Pablo Picasso

#People #Ships #Shipwreck

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

#Art #Believe #History

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Lying #Believe #Answers

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Artist #Worry #Technique

It takes a long time to become young.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Wise #Time #Long

Everything you can imagine is real.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Meaningful #Art

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Witty #Money #Men

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

#Women #Artist #Two

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Photography #Artist #Expression

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Different #Painting

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Thinking #Carpe Diem

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Life #Art #Dust

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Know Yourself #Entertainers

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Funny #Witty #Technology

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Creativity #Artist #Design

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Believe #Positive Thinking

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
-- Pablo Picasso

#Photography #Art #Mirrors

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.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Success #God

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Photography #Art #Creativity

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.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Men #Perception

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Life #Beautiful #Art

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Work #Mean #Two

There's nothing more difficult than a line.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Life #Lines #Difficult

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Confidence #Mother #Encouragement

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Creativity #Creative

Youth has no age.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Birthday #Time #Age

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

#Art #Creativity #Eye

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.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Motivational #Basketball

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Life #Beautiful #Art

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspiring #Wisdom #Art

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Stronger #Bidding

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Fashion #Numbers #Style

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Lying #Realizing

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #War #Creativity

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Mean #Care #Apollo

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Dog #Poodles

Sex and art are the same thing.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Sex

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Eggs #Trying #Portraits

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
-- Pablo Picasso

#Color #Two #Next

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Goddess #Doormat

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
-- Pablo Picasso

#Color #Trying #Want

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Order

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Appreciation #Children #Growing Up

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
-- Pablo Picasso

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Bourgeoisie #Ass

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Song #Art #People

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Aim #Discovering #Wanted

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
-- Pablo Picasso

#Artist #Done #Needs

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Song #Art #Flower

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Doe #Intention

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Games #Amusement #Nonsense

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.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Pain #Artist #Color

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Witty #Powerful #Humorous

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Eye #Drawing

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Golf #Wind #Stronger

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Giving #Trouble #Difficulty

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Forget #Works Of Art

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Motivational #Art

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Artist #Difficult #Hated

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Artist #Ideas

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

#Inspirational #Art #Ideas

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Preparation #Use #Canvas

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Eggs #Portraiture #Portraits

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

#Inspirational #Creativity #Why Not

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Past #Discovery #Giving

I do not seek. I find.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Art #Creativity

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Artist #Imitation #Copies

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

#Success #Dangerous #Copies

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.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Brain #Intuition

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Photography #Doctors #Two

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

#Pain #Artist #Sculpture

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Life #Art

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

#Artist #Maps #Lines

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
-- Pablo Picasso

#Sympathy #Artist #Understanding

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Pain #Thinking #Opposites

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Children #Tricks #Born

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Games #People

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Children #Years