I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
~ Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
I do not seek. I find.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Youth has no age.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
It takes a long time to become young.
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
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.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
