Pablo Picasso Quotes

Everything you can imagine is real.

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

~ Pablo Picasso

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

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

It takes a very long time to become young.

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Pablo Picasso

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

~ Pablo Picasso

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

~ Pablo Picasso

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

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

~ Pablo Picasso

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

~ Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ― Pablo Picasso

~ Pablo Picasso

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

~ Pablo Picasso

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

~ Pablo Picasso

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

~ Pablo Picasso

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

~ Pablo Picasso

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Pablo Picasso

To find is the thing.

~ Pablo Picasso

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? -Pablo Picasso.

~ Pablo Picasso

It took me a lifetime.

~ Pablo Picasso

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

~ Pablo Picasso

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

~ Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

~ Pablo Picasso

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

~ Pablo Picasso

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

~ Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

~ Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

~ Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

~ Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find.

~ Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

~ 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.

~ Pablo Picasso