Home
logo
English German French
language
Pablo Picasso
Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of: Pablo Picasso
Biography : Spanish painter and sculptor.
Born: 1881 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Spain
Spain
Clear all filters

Pablo Picasso - Quotes




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






I do not seek, I find.
Pablo Picasso / 






Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso / 






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






Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso / 






A picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.
Pablo Picasso / 






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






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






If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso / 






Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso






To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso






Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso






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






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






Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso






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






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






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






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






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 / 






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






We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso






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






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






Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso






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.
Pablo Picasso / 






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






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.
Pablo Picasso






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










Tag
Filter by tag



Source
Filter by source



Find Pablo Picasso quotes in french or in german.

Click on the translation icon.