1.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
Pablo Picasso
What is the purpose of attempting to decipher the beauty of art? Is it similar to decoding the melody of a bird's serenade?
2.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
The key to life is to identify your talent. The mission of life is to share it.
3.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
I continually challenge myself with tasks beyond my capability so that I can acquire the skills to accomplish them.
4.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
Grasp the conventions with finesse, so you can innovate like a master.
5.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
Postpone nothing that you are not willing to leave incomplete in the event of death.
6.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Creative expression purges the mundane from the spirit.
7.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Some artists transmute the sun into a yellow speck, others transmute a yellow speck into the sun.
8.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
Each baby is a creative genius. The challenge is keeping that creativity as we age.
9.
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
10.
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Pablo Picasso
11.
We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
Pablo Picasso
12.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
13.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Pablo Picasso
14.
Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
Pablo Picasso
15.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
16.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
17.
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
Pablo Picasso
18.
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
19.
When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
Pablo Picasso
20.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
21.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
22.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
23.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
24.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
25.
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
Pablo Picasso
26.
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
27.
We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.
Pablo Picasso
28.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
Pablo Picasso
29.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
30.
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).
Pablo Picasso
31.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo Picasso
32.
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
Pablo Picasso
33.
When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.
Pablo Picasso
34.
Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
Pablo Picasso
35.
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.
Pablo Picasso
36.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso
37.
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.
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It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.
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39.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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40.
They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.
Pablo Picasso
41.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo Picasso
42.
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Pablo Picasso
43.
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
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44.
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.
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45.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso
46.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Pablo Picasso
47.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
48.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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49.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
50.
When I haven't any blue I use red.
Pablo Picasso
