Pablo Picasso Quotes

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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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... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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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... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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One must act in painting as in life, directly... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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Youth has no age... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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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... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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We don't grow older, we grow riper... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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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... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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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... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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To draw you must close your eyes and sing... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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

By: Pablo Picasso

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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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