Picasso Quotes

Every artist is a child at heart.

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

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Youth has no age.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

It takes a long time to become young.

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.

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

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history.

In art, as in love, instinct is enough.

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A painting is not thought out and settled in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change.

I do not seek. I find.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

I do not seek, I find.

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

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

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

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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.

They’ll sell ya thousands of bells and whistle for a dime. Murder, Incorporated. They’ll do anything.

It’s not what you are looking at that matters, it’s what you see.

My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

If you know exactly what you’re going to do, what’s the good of doing it?