Pablo picasso quotes

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

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

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Everything we can dream can be real.

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.

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

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

Lord, protect me from what I want!

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

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

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

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.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

It takes a long time to become young.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

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.

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

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

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

I imitate everyone except myself.

Youth has no age.

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.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

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

There are more copies than originals among people.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

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.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

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

I do not seek. I find.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

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.'

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

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Art is a leap into the dark.

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

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

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.

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

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

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

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

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

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

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

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

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

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

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.

If you can imagine it...it is real

To find is the thing.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

You don't make art, you find it

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Sex and art are the same thing.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

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

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

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.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

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

In art, practice always comes before theory.

Everything you can imagine is real.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

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.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

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

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

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.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Why assume that to look is to see?

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

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

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.