Pablo Picasso Quotes

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

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

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

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

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

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

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

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.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

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

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

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

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.

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.'

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

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.

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.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

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.

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.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

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.

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.

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.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

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.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

When I haven't any blue I use red.