Pablo Picasso Quotes

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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 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...

Everything you can imagine is real.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

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

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The world today doesn`t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

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

It takes a long time to grow young.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Give me a museum and I`ll fill it.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

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

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

The artist is a receptacle for the 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.

It takes a long time to become young.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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.